Synonym: enticement. Similar words: adaptation, contemplation, exemption, redemption, proportional representation, tempt, attempt, contempt. Meaning: [temp'teɪʃn] 
n. 1. something that seduces or has the quality to seduce 2. the desire to have or do something that you know you should avoid 3. the act of influencing by exciting hope or desire.
n. 1. something that seduces or has the quality to seduce 2. the desire to have or do something that you know you should avoid 3. the act of influencing by exciting hope or desire. 
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1 He who avoids temptation avoids the sin. 
2 He overcame a strong temptation to run away.
3 He failed to struggle against temptation.
4 That candy is a temptation.
5 The temptation proved irresistible.
6 Don't succumb to the temptation to have just one cigarette.
7 It proved an irresistible temptation to Hall to go back.
8 I had the constant temptation to look out of the window.
9 There might be a temptation to cheat if students sit too close together.
10 It's very easy to yield to temptation and spend too much money.
11 I can never resist temptation/chocolate/the urge to laugh.
12 The temptation warred with his conscience.
13 I couldn't resist the temptation to open the letter.
14 I yielded to temptation and had a chocolate bar.
15 She succumbed to the temptation of another drink.
16 I was overwhelmed by such a temptation.
17 With an effort of will he resisted the temptation.
18 Don't give in to the temptation to argue back.
19 She resisted the temptation to laugh.
20 The menu offers a temptation to over-indulgence.
21 The temptation was warring with his conscience.
22 The temptation was too great to resist.
23 Colette surrendered to temptation and took out a cigarette.
24 Resist the temptation to nap in the daytime.
25 The temptation to tell her everything was very strong.
26 She yielded to temptation and had another chocolate.
27 An expensive bicycle is a temptation to thieves.
28 The temptation is very strong.
29 Temptation comes to all of us,whether or not we succumb depends on our ability to recognize its disguise,sometimes it arrives in a form of an old flame,flichering back to lift,or a new friend who could end up being so much more,or a young child who wakens feelings we didn't know we had.And so we give in to temptation all the while knowing come moring,[www.Sentencedict.com]we'll have to suffer the consequences.
30 The bag of sweets on the table was too strong a temptation for the child to resist.
More similar words: adaptation, contemplation, exemption, redemption, proportional representation, tempt, attempt, contempt, tempting, station, mutation, agitation, dictation, vegetation, stationery, imitation, gestation, incantation, denotation, annotation, quotation, contemptible, contemptuous, caveat emptor, self-contempt, connotation, deputation, reputation, salutation, sanitation.