How to Use beguile in a Sentence

beguile

verb

• 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.
• These were wines of beguiling expression that did not rely on sheer power and extract for attention.
  — David Rosoff, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2024
• The film takes place behind the gates of a remote retirement community, where a starry-eyed nurse is beguiled by a string of perverse scam calls.
  — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 16 July 2024
• In short, Oh, Mary! is a full-fledged, indisputable phenomenon, as beguiling to bean counters as laughing seat sitters.
  — Greg Evans, Deadline, 6 Aug. 2024
• 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
• Of course, the easy conclusion is that we have been beguiled by the system or the parties or the candidates.
  — Beth Greenfield, Fortune, 1 July 2024
• 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
• She was beguiled by the tropical beauty of the grasslands, where rivers swell during the summers and people lead placid lives on their margins.
  — Ana Karina Zatarain, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024