beguiles
Example Sentences
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It’s an idea that always beguiles but never delivers.
From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2024
It trails across the ground, flutters in the air and beguiles you, just like this film.
From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2024
You need a thing that beguiles its way into people’s lives and then beguiles them into becoming programmers.
From The Verge • Mar. 8, 2022
Neither dance really beguiles, however, as each entails oddly emphasized details, with especially awkward arm positions hampering the duet’s grandeur.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2016
As spirit of the golden ages, The Poet alway he beguiles, Who everywhere in reeling pages Doth celebrate his pleasant wiles.
From Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. by Hardenberg, Friedrich von
