Was attracted

Usage examples of tempted.

When she calculated what this one fact was costing her in stocks and bonuses to keep her loading crews silent, she was tempted to start her own heavy machinery factory, with lifters and forks and cranes all built so that anybody could operate them at the touch of a button.

While he wasn't like his superior, Landreau, who blustered when angry, Rogitel was coolheaded and very quiet, a dangerously misleading trait, which tempted the unwary to talk in his presence under the delusion that he wasn't listening.

Get you out of the room so you cannot be tempted, scaredy cat,” and Kelly made shooing gestures with her hands at Hrriss.

I never thought of it before, but perhaps an atmospheric stench would affect the kinds of foods people would prefer, and if someone were already tempted to consider the flesh of living beings an acceptable food, the smell might increase the probability - ‘ The others groaned loudly, in discordant tones, and Mayerd glared at them.

All in all, it's really not unreasonable to assume that you might have been tempted off the straight and narrow.

I am very tempted to bring back some of those nicotine-rich leaves, Ezra, for I happen to know that there isn t enough available on Earth to treat those circulatory diseases for which nicotine is a specific.

The smell of delicious fresh meat just beyond the barrier tempted it away from the road home.

Sassinak was tempted to teach him a lesson about that, but under the circumstances she wanted their parting to be as friendly as possible.

True enough, she had been tempted to suicide, but her conditioning had held.

It was apt, Helva thought, trying not to admit how the notion of a return scared, and tempted, her.

He was always a popular speaker whenever he could be tempted to go to conferences.

I'm half tempted to blow this whole thing off, just because they didn't.

She filled the three wall-size screens with the displays that had tempted Polyon and Darnell into the game.

Somebody without that background might be tempted to shove everything under the carpet for fear of offending someone powerful.

She was tempted to tell the colony leader to fold his offer into a point of singularity and put it in his eye, but this was Bisman's home, and his show.