Synonym: allure, captivate, charm, draw, fascinate, infatuate, interest, pull, tempt. Antonym: distract, repel. Similar words: attractive, attraction, distract, abstract, contract, contractor, attribute, track. Meaning: [ə'trækt] v. 1. direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes 2. exert a force on (a body) causing it to approach or prevent it from moving away 3. be attractive to.
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121) However, such schools do seem to attract a large number of religious families.
122) Each vacancy will attract many thousands of applicants in the form of new seeds or larvae.
123) The Mir space station has failed to attract enough would-be visitors to save itself from destruction.
124) Even if I failed to attract Neil's attention, I would probably be able to cross quite soon.
125) Yet even if Frankenstein had never been invented, Mary Shelley would continue to attract interest as the favoured child of romanticism.
126) The real challenge will be to attract an audience and advertisers against formidable rivals.
127) But Lord Exeter also saw to it that Stamford should never attract any industry.
128) This would attract industry and commerce, and hence bring about the creation of jobs.
129) In addition, school-to-work initiatives designed for narrowly defined occupations or industries may fail to attract students.
130) But there may be parliamentary unrest, as other parties try to attract new members.
131) The dams etc may also have been designed to attract industry and so benefit the country in the long term.
132) Several modules are specifically designed to attract students from different areas of the Course.
133) Last year, it launched the Deluxe sandwiches, a higher-priced line meant to attract customers looking for better quality.
134) If I left a table in Fif's that I'd just acquired, I might attract attention.
135) In order to stimulate local interest and to attract more members, a revision of the constitution allowed the formation of Regional Councils.
136) It is designed to halt vote-buying and corruption, attract better people to government and strengthen protection of human and civil rights.
137) The expanding region will attract capital for investment and workers will migrate from the less advantaged areas.
138) Set up to provide money for growing companies[sentencedict.com], the stockmarket failed to attract investors.
139) Frontier areas with low population densities attract particular kinds of exploitation of natural resources.
140) He must have suspected that a Madness gig would attract a football crowd.
141) Similarly the draw will attract as much interest for those it keeps apart as those it brings together.
142) Such trophies attract the kind of devotion from supporters once accorded to regalia and the furnishing of shrines.
143) It is an exhibition designed to attract and reflect all aspects of health and leisure activities.
144) We listen and pay attention when it says something in such a way as to attract our attention.
145) But the company believes, he added, that fees based primarily on actual costs will attract new customers.
145) Sentencedict.com is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find excellent sentences for a large number of words.
146) For instance, the use of purveyance began to attract criticism in the last fifteen years of the reign.
147) They attract an audience with varied interests and offer on-line access to the greatest number of users throughout the United States.
148) Affected children inevitably attract more than their fair share of parental attention which can cause problems with unaffected siblings.
149) On Dec. 23 the Assembly approved a number of amendments to foreign investment legislation in order to attract more foreign companies.
150) A noisy relaunch with attendant superstars will certainly attract lots of attention.
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