beguiles

Example Sentences

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We witness McFadin as he smilingly interrogates—and intimidates—witnesses and plaintiffs, beguiles juries and sweet-talks judges, knocking down charges against Kenrex as if bowling strike after strike.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

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

Here, Cooke, a Manchester native, convincingly turns Irish as the spirited young woman who beguiles most everyone but always seems to have a hidden agenda.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2021

This movie — the story of how she returns home — beguiles and fascinates on several levels.

From New York Times • Aug. 27, 2020

As for you yellin' like a pig onder a gate, who is it, I asks, that beguiles this indigent artist party into camp, an' leaves him on our hands?

From Faro Nell and Her Friends Wolfville Stories by Dunton, W. Herbert