How to Use seductress in a Sentence

seductress

noun
  • The bright yet retro red colour with metallic pigments will bring out the seductress in you.
    — Angela Lei, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021
  • There were so many examples of the teenage seductress in he '90s.
    — Colleen Leahey McKeegan, Marie Claire, 28 Feb. 2020
  • All at once a seductress and a hag; a cunning shapeshifter and a gullible fool tricked into the service of the devil.
    — Kate Wheeling, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Maggie, too, is cast as a teenage seductress, responsible for the crimes against her.
    — Bryn Greenwood, Washington Post, 8 July 2019
  • Catherine is a tease, a seductress — a teenager’s wet dream and a mother’s worst nightmare.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2024
  • Others painted her as a seductress who had successfully reeled in a catch.
    — Chang Che, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2022
  • There were so many examples of this Lolita trope, or the teenage seductress, in our culture.
    — Colleen Leahey McKeegan, Marie Claire, 28 Feb. 2020
  • In Adriana’s telling, Julia was a seductress who always had a crush on her.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Jamie Lee Curtis stars as a seductress who teams up with a group of robbers to steal a bunch of diamonds.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 18 Aug. 2017
  • But female crayfish have taken on both roles – seductress and selector.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 30 Mar. 2010
  • But with the exception of a malign seductress, the characters are just too nice – which can be a comfort, but also a drama killer.
    — Heller McAlpin, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Apr. 2021
  • Once again, a defense lawyer attempted to paint the women as lying, scheming seductresses.
    — S. C. Cornell, New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2026
  • If Riding is a first-class provocateur and seductress, her deeper motives often feel unclear.
    — Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2022
  • There were tiger print undies for the bold, silky robes for seductresses, and barely there sheer pieces for aspiring Bad Gals everywhere.
    — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 13 Sep. 2018
  • Elsewhere, 21 Savage delivers his verse while being tied up to a chair by two seductresses.
    — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Obviously, there’s more than meets the eye with this sultry, beautiful seductress, but her looks and allure cause men to easily fall into her evil trap.
    — Essence, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Lister proved a shrewd business owner, not to mention a diligent seductress of local gentlewomen.
    — Joshua Levine, Travel + Leisure, 7 Mar. 2021
  • Stause, 40, is featured prominently in the video, first as a seductress in the store, wearing a black leather dress, and later as the two make out in various locales.
    — Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com, 12 May 2022
  • At a metafictional level, Spark is taking revenge on her old seductress, Christina Kay.
    — Tim Parks, The New York Review of Books, 28 July 2020
  • Unfortunately, Monroe’s efforts to get deep into the world of a scheming seductress with a very mean streak is one of the few things in this film that really work.
    — Matthew Jackson, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Her character, an inky-haired high school seductress turned murderer, opted for only thin purple and pink cardigans that were cropped to reveal a sinister slice of tummy.
    — Alexandra Gurvitch, Vogue, 13 June 2018
  • Dumas’ sinister seductress Milady is now a British spy helping the Nazis.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 11 Mar. 2026
  • From the female perspective, the two women display their more dominant, seductress nature and amplifies the anthemic song of the summer.
    — Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 23 July 2024
  • Contemporary descriptions of Boleyn painted her as a seductress, as power-hungry, and even as a witch with six fingers who enchanted the king.
    — Suyin Haynes, Time, 2 Dec. 2019
  • The The Idea of You star transformed herself into a sleek seductress with a faux pompadour pixie hairstyle and deep, dark vampy lipstick and eye shadow to match.
    — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Case in point, the character of Bruiser Stone (Lana Parrilla), reimagined here as a buxom seductress with a heart of gold.
    — Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
  • But in the diary, Kennedy also painted himself as the victim of seductresses, the Daily Beast’s Lazarus said.
    — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Your Face Twice a Day Laziness is a powerful seductress, especially after a long day.
    — Kristin Perrotta, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Oct. 2018
  • Zemeckis told her that the studio was looking at people with bigger names for the role, but Rossellini felt uniquely prepared to play a seductress proffering an elixir for eternal youth.
    — Harper's BAZAAR, 3 May 2021
  • Cleopatra, a powerful seductress, was considered a tricky foreigner in Mark Antony's Rome.
    — Bob Morris, Town & Country, 9 Feb. 2016

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