Attract with a bait-and-switch

Usage examples of lure.

They continued yesterday the tense and prolonged process of attempting to lure Abies out of the cabin.

She had even tried to lure him into a kiss, but he had smoothly dodged her enticements, repeatedly foisting her off on Acer Loring.

Laa-queel had heard the afanc had learned to speak some human tongues and often lured sailors to their own deaths.

Laaqueel had heard the afanc had learned to speak some human tongues and often lured sailors to their own deaths.

Fishing the seething tide-race through the main channel at full spring tide, and shouting with excitement as the golden amberjack came boiling up in the wake, bellies flashing like mirrors, to hit the dancing feather lures, and send the Penn reels screeching a wild protest, and the fibreglass rods nodding and kicking.

Breen, head of the evaluation team, the one man, Gale had said, who could tell him why he had been lured to Auk House.

CHAPTER XXII THE LURE OF GOLD IT was afternoon when Lamont Cranston arrived at the Aureole Mine on what was supposed to be his first visit.

In the mornings, he could be seen in the yards with his falconers and austringers, swinging lures to bring half-trained birds back to the fist.

One of the austringers prepared his lure, a piece of meat attached to some duck feathers.

Again, Lennox, on oath, averred that, as they rode to Perth, James told him the story of the lure, the pot of gold.

I pulled my sweater over my head and backed off, placing myself behind Jack, hoping now to lure Beane between the two of us and give Jack the clear shot he needed.

He felt the devil was slipping hip wiggling and bebop rhythms into gospel, tempting groups and luring good Christians away from the Lord with the idea of making a fast buck.

She made the most of the brief fluid loquaciousness the razored acid bequeathed as lure and incentive.

Penrod Schofield and Roderick Bitts and Maurice Levy LURED GEORGIE INTO THE CELLAR AND HAD HIM BEATEN BY NEGROES!

He even caught the faint perfume of the bleep who had lured Woofer in.