spellbinder

Example Sentences

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The audience laughed and laughed, not least because the Judge, an old-fashioned spellbinder, paused or gestured at well-chosen instants.

From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2021

This performance was, more often than not, a spellbinder.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2017

Irina Tsikurishvili is a sinewy, sinister spellbinder as the witch.

From Washington Post • Dec. 12, 2016

In which case Hodgson will use the Mascherano bounty to mount a bid for Carlton Cole, whose similarity to a nifty Brazilian spellbinder is plain to see.

From The Guardian • Aug. 10, 2010

Accepting the challenge, the professional spellbinder allowed his place on the stump of the cottonwood to be held by the raw Demosthenes.

From The Lincoln Story Book A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form by Williams, Henry Llewellyn