The film charts the efforts of a dodgy theatre manager trying to lure the singer back for a last encore.The burglary was set up in order to lure the police officer into an ambush.
Peasants were lured into joining the People's Army by the promises of large sums of money for their families.Next, she lures him out to her convertible.He's only a seven month old pup and the thieves probably had an easy time luring him away.Clinton used a state trooper to lure her to a hotel room during a state-sponsored event in 1991.Ivor and Pauline were lured back to Stroud's bungalow at Staunton, on the pretext of discussing the cash settlement.→ See Verb table Examples from the Corpus lure It’s very difficult to lure talent away from Silicon Valley. 2 to attract customers, workers, money etc from another company or place lure somebody back/away The bank launched an advertising campaign to lure back its traditional customers. lure somebody away Computer games are luring youngsters away from their lessons. ○○ verb 1 PERSUADE to persuade someone to do something, especially something wrong or dangerous, by making it seem attractive or exciting lure somebody into (doing) something People may be lured into buying tickets by clever advertising.From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English lure lure 1 / lʊə, ljʊə $ lʊr /
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