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Collocations for "temptation"

Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "temptation" in context.

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temptation

n

(couldn't) resist the temptation (to)
a [strong, great, burning] temptation (to)
[sweet, fatty, sexual] temptations
avoid temptation
avoid the temptation to [take, ask, eat]
the temptation to [cheat, take drugs]
the temptation of [cheating]
[gave in, succumbed] to temptation

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'temptation' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):

overcome - resist - strive

Forum discussions with the word(s) "temptation" in the title:

(the) temptation - English Only forum
a long succession of temptation from Satan - English Only forum
A sin when one fails to resist seduction, temptation, greed. - English Only forum
a temptation to have available to the Fleet the full range of anti-submarine capabilities - English Only forum
Does the word "succumb" mean to fall in a temptation? - English Only forum
Eliminate temptation in others - English Only forum
flushed perhaps by the temptation - English Only forum
give in to temptation - English Only forum
I can resist anything but temptation - English Only forum
I realise the temptation - English Only forum
I rested my temples on the breast of temptation - English Only forum
impossible to resist the temptation - English Only forum
just one temptation going to be less - English Only forum
lead us not into temptation - English Only forum
lead us not into temptation / fear not ['Not' after verb] - English Only forum
lead us not into temptation=don't lead us into temptation? - English Only forum
Lucy resists the temptation to pull Stella from its path. - English Only forum
make it through the temptation - English Only forum
mitigate that temptation - English Only forum
resist/restrain the temptation - English Only forum
served no purpose...beyond temptation - English Only forum
She succumbed to the temptation - English Only forum
smoke and temptation - English Only forum
strong temptation - English Only forum
succumb to the temptation of iced café au lait - English Only forum
temptation from circumstances - English Only forum
temptation/in general - English Only forum
Temptation/Temptations - English Only forum
The hand of temptation - English Only forum
The temptation is too overwhelming/enormous/huge - English Only forum
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