Attracts

Examples

• When current is made, the relay attracts an armature, which thereby closes a circuit in a local battery and thus causes a click of the sounder. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• It is quite otherwise with the employment into which the monopoly naturally attracts, if I may say so, the capital of the London merchant. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But somehow this case attracts me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• What attracts them it would be difficult to say. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• A wire carrying current attracts iron filings. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• It is the superiority of price which attracts them; and as soon as that superiority ceases, they necessarily cease to go thither. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• She attracts, sir: she would attract without the advantages of your wealth and position. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Although such a straight current bearing wire attracts iron filings, its power of attraction is very small; but its magnetic strength can be increased by coiling as in Figure 211. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• And the forbidding principle is derived from reason, and that which bids and attracts proceeds from passion and disease? Plato. The Republic.
• She very soon discovered that there is a charm about fine clothes which attracts a certain class of people and secures their respect. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Among the smaller self-acting engines, the forging machine for making bolts attracts attention by the rapidity of its action. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• It seems to be the mere rarity that attracts the average collector. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Not a bad purchase for Rosedale, though: attracts attention, and awes the Western sight-seer. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• It attracts them by its luminous appearance and also by its odor, which is very attractive to all vermin. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Lady Tippins with a skittish little scream, attracts the general attention. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

Typist: Vern