How to Use beguiling in a Sentence
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But there is more to these beguiling relics than meets the eye.
—Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 15 Feb. 2018
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Things are rarely so pat for the beguiling artist.
—Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 6 May 2026
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This is all beguiling and strange, with the light ease of a skipping stone.
—Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 13 Sep. 2024
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And there was something so beguiling about that buzzing, open courtyard.
—Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
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But this is how so many great debuts feel—like a beguiling series of doors, kicked open and slammed shut.
—Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024
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Check out some of her campaign shots, then channel her beguiling vibes with our picks below.
—Marina Liao, Marie Claire, 23 Oct. 2019
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It's also blessed with one of Nicks' most beguiling vocal tracks in years.
—Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 11 Sep. 2025
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The dummy for a team-mate to score is one of football’s most enjoyable and beguiling acts.
—Stuart James, New York Times, 23 June 2026
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With stills, there's always the same instant, frozen and beguiling, but lifeless.
—Carmel Dagan, chicagotribune.com, 3 Aug. 2019
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Those long, beguiling strands have a fiery red pepper bite followed by a sweet surge of hardware smoke that lingers on the tongue.
—Robert F. Moss, Southern Living, 17 Sep. 2025
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But the most beguiling aspect of this image is the pale blue dot, poised just inside the G ring.
—Discover Magazine, 15 Feb. 2013
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Some rooms have private pools or gardens; all have beguiling views over the countryside.
—Ann Abel, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
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Her latest is the most beguiling LP she’s made, and arguably her most deeply felt.
—Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2025
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The melody draws the listener into its beguiling spell.
—Sheila Regan, Twin Cities, 28 Mar. 2026
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The grandchild reaches not for the apple but for the beguiling ribbon.
—Patricia Hampl, WSJ, 21 June 2018
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But the mayor’s office was confident this week’s storm would be less beguiling.
—Zach Murdock, courant.com, 11 Dec. 2019
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As beguiling as so many of the maps are visually, their contexts and backstories can be even more so.
—Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2023
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The title track, which doubles down on a triple entendre, is oddly beguiling and grand.
—David Harris, SPIN, 10 Mar. 2026
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His subject was, indeed, a reluctant prince, and hence the beguiling title of this book.
—David Shribman, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2019
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Yet much of the bistro’s abundant charisma flows from its connection to this beguiling, bilingual city.
—Brett Anderson, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2019
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Keeneland Racecourse, which opens today for its spring meet, is a beguiling mixture of the quaint and the cutting edge.
—Eric Banks, Town & Country, 5 Apr. 2013
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So what was initially the biggest pain point of the project became one of the most beguiling and beautiful rooms in the house.
—Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 22 Aug. 2019
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Kerry James Marshall is one of our most beguiling living painters.
—Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
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All this strife is set against a beguiling backdrop of an island brimming with abalone and dormant volcanoes.
—Gary Shteyngart, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Nov. 2023
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Well worth a bite… a beguiling entry into the thoughts of Dracula and his ilk living among us.
—Jocelyn McClurg, USA TODAY, 30 June 2018
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Get your fill of more romance, horror and beguiling women on June 23.
—Julie Kosin, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 Mar. 2017
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Viewers will be pleased to find three seasons' worth of cases that are properly beguiling and sometimes a bit spooky.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 29 Sep. 2024
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Viewers will be pleased to find three seasons' worth of cases that are properly beguiling and sometimes a bit spooky.
—Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Mar. 2026
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Both provide the instant rush of torque that proves so beguiling, with the test car reaching 60 mph in a scant three seconds.
—Tribune News Service, Dallas News, 25 Mar. 2023
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That would be a hard question to answer, which is part of what has made the whole Welch/Rawlings ethos so beguiling.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 12 Mar. 2025
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