bewitch

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025

The prosecution alleged that Phiri and Candunde were hired by a fugitive former MP to bewitch Hichilema.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 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

While “I Put a Spell on You” is a fan-favorite, the super-creepy “Come Little Children,” sung by Parker’s Sarah to bewitch children for eating, is also a memorable performance.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2022

The Creevey brothers had managed to get hold of a stack of Support Cedric Diggory! badges and were trying to bewitch them to make them say Support Harry Potter! instead.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

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

And while his role is a smidge underwritten, Mr. Morris exudes an air of jaded yearning that naturally bewitches young Mia, with the same sad consequences as in the original.

From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2015

Aren't you afraid of the old ogre who keeps so many birds prisoners in his den, and bewitches them so that they sit quite still and never even try to fly?

From Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners by Louis Agassiz Fuertes

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

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

Left-armer Kuldeep bewitched England for 5-72, while Ravichandran Ashwin marked his own 100th Test with 4-51.

From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2024

It’s wired somewhere deep into our caveman brain — we’re bewitched by calamity.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2023

Knabe tried to trap her into saying Dr. King had bewitched them all.

From "Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice" by Phillip Hoose

When Conlon conducts the final performance of the company’s bewitching production of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” Sunday afternoon that will also mark his last appearance as L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

It was expensive, but worth every penny — a beautiful, abstract rendering of the film’s themes, displayed in a bewitching graphic style I couldn’t get out of my mind after coveting the poster online.

From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2026

Of the ones that have survived, Isidora is the most bewitching, almost perfectly preserved and flawlessly executed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 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

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