ATTRACTIVE in a Sentence

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318 example sentences for ATTRACTIVE, such as:
1. No, they were not an attractive lot.
2. Although our looks differ, we are both attractive.
3. Making easy money has always been an attractive proposition.
4. He felt unworthy of being married to such an attractive woman.
5. The deal fell through when the author received a more attractive offer.
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 Meanings and Examples of ATTRACTIVE
attractive
 a.  having the properties of a magnet; the ability to draw or pull
 a.  having power to arouse interest
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  It seemed strange now that when she was growing up Ashley had never seemed so very attractive to her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  With her younger daughters, she had success, for Suellen was so anxious to be attractive she lent an attentive and obedient ear to her mother's teachings, and Carreen was shy and easily led.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  She told herself that the child was merely full of life and there was still time in which to teach her the arts and graces of being attractive to men.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
4  There was no one to tell Scarlett that her own personality, frighteningly vital though it was, was more attractive than any masquerade she might adopt.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
5  It distracted her from her thoughts and she was very anxious to arrange both her thoughts and her face in attractive lines before reaching Twelve Oaks.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
6  Honey's nervously obvious desire to be attractive to every man in sight contrasted sharply with her father's poise, and Scarlett had the thought that perhaps there was something in what Mrs. Tarleton said, after all.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
7  All of the interesting young men were gone-- the four Tarletons, the two Calverts, the Fontaines, the Munroes and everyone from Jonesboro, Fayetteville and Lovejoy who was young and attractive.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
8  Unhampered by matrimony or widowhood, they made vast inroads on the convalescents, and even the least attractive girls, Scarlett observed gloomily, had no difficulty in getting engaged.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
9  She busied herself arranging the articles in the booth in more attractive display, while Scarlett sat and looked glumly around the room.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
10  It wasn't fair that she must keep her voice low and her eyes cast modestly down, when men, attractive ones, too, came to their booth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
11  It seemed such a terrible waste to spend all your little girlhood learning how to be attractive and how to catch men and then only use the knowledge for a year or two.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
12  Other women's husbands you let severely alone, even if they were your own discarded beaux, and no matter how temptingly attractive they were.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
13  Besides, these men wounded in the retreat were not so attractive as the earlier ones had been.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
14  No, they were not an attractive lot.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
15  When he climbed into the buggy and took the reins from her and threw her some impertinent remark, she felt young and gay and attractive again, for all her worries and her increasing bulk.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
Example Sentence: (108 in 8 pages)
1  The deal fell through when the author received a more attractive offer.
2  The scenery in Switzerland is exceedingly attractive to the tourists from the whole world.
3  He felt unworthy of being married to such an attractive woman.
4  They wanted to design a machine that was both attractive and practical.
5  Wye Lea is a collection of farm buildings that have been converted into an attractive complex.
6  The book would look a lot more attractive if they added a few color pictures.
7  Making easy money has always been an attractive proposition.
8  In addition to a competitive salary, the company offers attractive employee benefits.
9  She was not exactly good-looking, but definitely attractive.
10  He surrounds himself with attractive, intelligent, or well-known people.
11  The less well-developed areas of Europe are much less attractive as investment prospects than the major centres.
12  Skinny means very thin, often in a way that is not attractive:a skinny little kid.
13  This attractive building is particularly notable for its garden setting.
14  The mobile phone companies argue that reducing taxes will make legally imported phones more attractive than the cheaper smuggled models.
15  Although our looks differ, we are both attractive.