bewitch

Unlike Godard, he doesn’t try to bewitch you with theory.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025

Washington, having spurned a crown himself, recognized the siren song that could bewitch even ostensibly democratic leaders, particularly in polities where checks on power are easily subverted.

From Slate ● Feb. 17, 2025

Well, when there are people available to bewitch.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 5, 2022

Webster’s neighbors accused her of witchcraft in 1683, when she was around 60 years old, claiming she worked with the devil to bewitch local livestock.

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2019

“Have they found a new way to bewitch us?”

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine

He has constructed a glossy fever dream that bewitches as much as it befuddles.

From Salon ● May 20, 2022

An Ozark faith healer bewitches two construction engineers.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2020

The garden — also rich in watery pools and jumbo succulents in bright pots — still bewitches with its far-from-the-dusty-medina vibe.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 1, 2019

For all the drama of its history, she writes that the beauty of the place, the very thing that bewitches its tourists, renders it a time capsule to its residents.

From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2016

Here the sea and there the land bewitches you.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle by Kuno Francke

By the end of the second hour—partly spent traversing grid-patterned streets to avoid an accident—I was bewitched.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

Yes, the bye week bewitched them in 2022 and 2023, when the offense lost its swagger and the Dodgers were beaten in two stunning division series upsets by the San Diego Padres and Arizona Diamondbacks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2025

Chinese state media said the group had been "bewitched" by criminal organisations and were stranded in Thailand after illegally leaving the country.

From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2025

He said it was she who first bewitched him when he worked as a page in the stacks of the Johns Hopkins University library in Baltimore as an undergraduate.

From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2024

He told Dumbledore everything except that Mr. Weasley owned the bewitched car, making it sound as though he and Ron had happened to find a flying car parked outside the station.

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling

Curry pressed a bewitching soulfulness through all those layers of spirit gum and latex.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

Gloriously unpredictable and, at times, impossible to read, they are wildly entertaining - bewildering, bewitching, brilliant.

From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026

This week, Rausch’s fellow Traitors, Housewives Candiace Dillard Bassett and Lisa Rinna, get to peacock in a massive crown and, for Rinna, a brooch as bewitching as it is deadly.

From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2026

Advance single “Let Me Grow and You’ll See the Fruit” is bewitching and emotionally resonant, like someone whispering a story into your ear over a beautifully jangly guitar line.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025

Maps had always interested her; there was something bewitching in knowing one’s precise location in relation to others on the earth.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas