noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a strong temptation
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There’s always a strong temptation to put off doing difficult tasks.
resist the temptation to do sth
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He resisted the temptation to look back.
succumbed to temptation
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Gina succumbed to temptation and had a second serving of cake.
the pleasures/desires/temptations of the flesh (= things such as drinking, eating a lot, or having sex )
yielded to temptation
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Finally she yielded to temptation and helped herself to a large slice of cake.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
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The prospect of scaring off awkward media revelations will always provide a great temptation for Attorneys to bluff.
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Like-father-like-son was his great temptation .
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But it is a great temptation for people to say the latter, especially if they are ignorant of what others believe.
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In movies like this, there is a great temptation to lean heavily on the melodrama.
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Dhuoda thought of the palace as a place of great temptations .
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Despite intense pressure and great temptation , they entered no wars.
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Is this the moment of truth, he wrote, or the greatest temptation ?
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If such ideas were to spread, his own slaves might find them too great a temptation to resist.
strong
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There's always a strong temptation to put off the most difficult task or the least congenial subject.
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In the face of strong temptation , Janet dashes the bottle to the floor and rushes to Paddington to see Tryan.
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One was the strong temptation towards explicitness and over-clarity.
■ VERB
avoid
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Virgins should remain silent and avoid temptations where temptations might lurk.
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We can not avoid the human temptation to extend longevity, and we can not reverse the aging process.
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Constant vigilance to match appropriate services to needs, assessed along tight guidelines, is one way to avoid temptation .
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Jackie was to make sure that Bud arrived on time, avoided such temptations as alcohol and got home safely.
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Firstly you must select quotations carefully; they must do a job efficiently. Avoid the temptation to select too much.
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I assemble my Trangia and cook food, avoiding the almost overwhelming temptation to use the gas cylinder.
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Salespeople should avoid the temptation of making a sales presentation without finding out the needs of their customers.
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The best way is to work out a weekly budget and avoid the temptation to splurge out at the beginning of term.
give
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Not to give in to temptation , nomatterwhat form it takes.
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To give into that temptation , Tucker and Hendrickson warn, would be to lose our soul.
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Please be strong tonight - don't give in to temptation .
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Thou shall not give into temptation .
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He resolutely refuses to give way to the temptation to blame the local inhabitants for their problems.
put
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When Sam succumbs to the temptation of putting on the Ring he feels Sauron looking for him.
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There's always a strong temptation to put off the most difficult task or the least congenial subject.
resist
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He was welcome to the food in the pantry, she thought grimly, resisting the temptation to hope it choked him.
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Now that they had been made aware of their behavior, many promised to make the effort to resist the temptation .
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He resisted the temptation , leaning back in his seat, running a hand across his forehead.
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And resist the temptation to give them your money.
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The smell was unpleasant too but she resisted the temptation to remove her scented handkerchief from the cuff of her blouse.
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She called it the science of shopping, the ability to resist the temptations of dazzling packaging.
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They can resist temptation long enough to make decisions based on good sense.
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Tom Margittai successfully resisted the temptation to take a major detour from his original dream.
succumb
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If you succumb to the temptation to tell contrived jokes, ration yourself to two per day.
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The Democrats succumbed to this temptation for decades, severing their congressional campaigns from their national presidential campaign.
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When Sam succumbs to the temptation of putting on the Ring he feels Sauron looking for him.
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He succumbs to the temptation of attending church services at Lowick, where Casaubon cuts him irretrievably.
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She licked her very dry lips and refused to succumb to the temptation of another drink.
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People would succumb to temptation and revert to familiar if inefficient form.
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Had he believed her, he might have succumbed to temptation .
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Gandhi did not often succumb to that temptation .
try
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And the temptation to try out all she'd learned was suddenly overwhelming.
turn
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I was able to resist the temptation to turn .
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Resist that temptation by turning it on its head.
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Though the temptation to turn his back was strong, it was not in Mungo's nature to run away.
use
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I assemble my Trangia and cook food, avoiding the almost overwhelming temptation to use the gas cylinder.
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This offered the temptation to Government to use section 2 to protect itself against potentially damaging disclosures.
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Yet the temptation to use the Games for political purposes remains irresistible.
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So the temptation to use them, which can best be resisted by the media group, is great.
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The student must be careful to avoid the temptation of using the harp glissando to excess.
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Avoid the temptation of using too much of the material you have gathered.
yield
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A solution presents itself: the book will not yield to the hectic temptations , the seductions of the fevered imagination.
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Nor does it yield to the temptation to manipulate performance and financial data in a way that obscures hard truths.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I finally gave in to temptation and ate a huge piece of cheesecake.
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In the end, he gave in to temptation , and lit his first cigarette in five days.
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Life in New York has so many temptations.
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Resist the temptation to get involved. After all, it's not your problem.
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She thought of taking a day off work, but resisted the temptation .
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There is always a temptation to blame others for your own problems.
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When life was hard, the temptation to start drinking again was strong.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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If such ideas were to spread, his own slaves might find them too great a temptation to resist.
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In fact, one temptation in writing a management book is to quote Drucker on every other page.
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In this way, she reasoned, he would be removed from the temptations of the city.
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The church should resist the temptation to merely tick over.
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The point is repeated in several scenes of temptation .
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Yet the temptation to use the Games for political purposes remains irresistible.