Read full poem →The single atoms each to other tend,
Attract, attracted to, the next in place
Form'd and impell'd its neighbour to embrace.
Dictionary Entry
To pull toward without touching.
In a Sentence
“A magnet attracts iron filings.”
Origin
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Poetry examples for “attract”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →And just as a whole generation of younger writers
in France adopted Zola’s theories, so did they attract
the younger writers of Belgium. And really the
Read full poem →And order, truth, and beauty range,
Adjust, attract, and fill:
The grass the polyanthus cheques;
Read full poem →Let Ethan praise with the Flea, his coat of mail, his piercer, and his vigour, which wisdom and providence have contrived to attract observation and to escape it.
Read full poem →mobility was so alarming that she dared not remove
this object, lest it should attract his terrifying at-
tention; it lay wilting in the hot parallels of sun-
Read full poem →the age of twenty without ever having read a book which is one of the
first to attract every bright school-boy. This would be particularly
true of a school-boy who lived near Manchester, De Quincey's own town.
Read full poem →Of all approved; in manner, form, and air, 160
Made to attract; gay, elegant, and fair.
She had, in beauty’s aid, a fair pretence
Read full poem →Of times long past, and what in them befell—
Not of his life their wonder to attract,
But the choice tale, or insulated fact. 580
Read full poem →ſuperiority at ſea, and conducted their enterpriſes
with ſo much activity and ſkill, as to attract the
Read full poem →Hers in all real dignity? Adorned
She was indeed, and lovely, to attract
Thy love, not thy subjection; and her gifts
