How to Use beguile in a Sentence

beguile

verb
Definition of beguilenext
Synonyms for beguilenext
  • She was cunning enough to beguile her classmates into doing the work for her.
  • They were beguiled into thinking they'd heard the whole story.
  • He beguiled the audience with his smooth and seductive voice.
  • Almost everything in the quaint little town beguiles, from its architecture to its art to its people.
  • The presto of the third was kept extra-presto, with beguiling feints (or faints?) of volume in the repeating theme of the strings.
    — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 13 May 2023
  • Unlike the naïve young analysand, we won’t be beguiled by Lucy’s blunt advice.
    — Nicole Rudick, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2019
  • And for the past 13 years, one particular project has gone above and beyond to beguile them.
    — Sarah Medford, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2017
  • Swanning around in a fluffy new ball gown in an effort to beguile Bill was not the worst offense in his playbook.
    — Amy Fine Collins, Town & Country, 15 Aug. 2018
  • And Kevin beguiles the guys with tales of Tuscaloosa as the fellas try to determine what a win over Alabama means in the great scheme of things.
    — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 13 Sep. 2023
  • And too many here at home are beguiled by socialism’s false promises.
    — The Editors, National Review, 16 Oct. 2023
  • His smile serves as translation: Le Comptoir du Vin beguiles diners from the start.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2020
  • That certainly seems to be the case from the wealth of dance that beguiles the summer months, outdoors and indoors, at buzzy arts meccas and under-the-radar nooks.
    — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
  • Her voice wasn't a typical Broadway belt -- in fact, quite the opposite -- but beguiling just the same.
    — Rebecca Milzoff, Billboard, 18 Aug. 2017
  • Just as the race to break the sub-four-minute mile engrossed the public in the nineteen-fifties, so the sub-two-hour marathon has beguiled contemporary students of running.
    — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2019
  • The first day’s strong winds subsided enough to allow me to snorkel along a rocky outcropping where at least 20 kinds of fish beguiled my senses.
    — Doug Hansen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 Apr. 2018
  • She was beguiled by the idea of reinventing herself each time she was uprooted.
    — Christine Whitney, The Cut, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Intense and dense one moment, airy and inviting the next, her music can beguile even in its thorniest moments.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 July 2021
  • Even Kabul, which struggles daily to keep the Taliban at bay, was in the 16th century a polyglot place that beguiled a young Babur.
    — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2020
  • But the Blue Box retailer is hardly the only high-end jeweler beguiled by the life aquatic.
    — Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 14 Aug. 2023
  • But the summers of the Pacific Northwest beguiled him, along with an arty scene of kindred directors.
    — Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
  • One installation, made from piles of rubble and scree beguiles the clientele but confounds the cleaners.
    — Thomas Page, CNN, 24 May 2017
  • Consumers are seduced and beguiled by flavorists without even being aware of it.
    — Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2019
  • The east side view is limited by a huge HVAC system on top of the next building, but there are beguiling gazes in other directions.
    — Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 3 May 2018
  • Fatira also comes in a street food version comprising small square pieces cooked in the open on a giant frying pan in the likes of Ethiopia’s beguiling eastern city of Harar.
    — James Jeffrey, CNN, 23 June 2023
  • But this season already seems to have brought a bewildering — and at times beguiling — array of fads.
    — Diana Tsui, The Cut, 10 July 2018
  • They were enchanted by the temples, many of which were still buried ceiling-deep in sand, and beguiled by the almost impossibly green riverside fields.
    — Peter Schwartzstein, Smithsonian, 11 Dec. 2017
  • Even in a supporting role, Ms. Garcia showed an ability to beguile.
    — Alex Williams, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2023
  • With each new app, Big Tech mouthpieces try to beguile us with a repackaged version of authenticity.
    — Wired, 7 Aug. 2022
  • Daniel Mengden, a Houston native, with an old timey windup and matching twirled mustache, had beguiled the Astros for 6 2/3 innings.
    — Hunter Atkins, Houston Chronicle, 9 May 2018
  • You’re beguiled into believing that there is nothing this actress can’t do.
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2023

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