How to Use blandishment in a Sentence
blandishment
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Voters were subject to bribes, blandishments and threats in an effort to get them to the polls.
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Declan Walsh,
New York Times,
2018-03-29
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Mr Xi’s innovation is to single out young Taiwanese and to pile on the blandishments.
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The Economist,
2018-01-18
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The blandishments of Gabo, as everyone called him, were impossible to deny.
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Jon Lee Anderson,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2018-03-21
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The sweetening tone was just the latest change in a roller-coaster game of brinkmanship — talks about talks with two unpredictable world leaders trading threats and blandishments.
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Fox News,
2018-05-26
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Sift confectioner’s sugar into a bowl, whisk in lemon juice, add still more sugar to thicken: the blandishments of my loneliness are sweet and acidic, brushed on, carefully, with a fork.
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Talia Lavin,
The New Yorker,
2017-01-23
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Companies abandoned facilities in long-term host communities to reap tax abatements and other blandishments brandished by other cities.
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Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
2019-08-19
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Pharma companies spend billions on TV ads, doctor blandishments and expensive salespeople to keep prescriptions flowing.
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NBC News,
2017-06-09
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Reports of gobblers hanging with flocks of hens and seemingly immune to even the most tempting blandishments of hunters, including gobblers ignoring or even avoiding decoys, have been ubiquitous during early weeks of this season.
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Shannon Tompkins,
Houston Chronicle,
2018-04-11
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From their phones and screens, unemployed and underemployed young Saudis consume the West’s blandishments, as well as the sermons of jihadist preachers and the enticements of global terrorists.
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Karen Elliott House,
WSJ,
2018-11-30
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