inveigling

present participle of inveigle

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for inveigling
Verb
  • Chime has proven wildly successful in persuading new customers to open accounts.
    Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
  • After reading Wuoronos’ story, Pralle began conversing with her through letters, eventually persuading Wuornos to let Pralle adopt her.
    CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • This 35% transferable tax credit incentive, introduced in 2012 alongside the Colombia Film Fund, has been luring a growing number of projects, with Netflix increasingly investing in more series and features.
    Anna Marie de la Fuente, Variety, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Paramount also made headlines on the talent front, luring the Duffer Brothers from Netflix but then allowing Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan to decamp for a deal with NBCUniversal.
    Dade Hayes, Deadline, 10 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Jennifer then develops a taste for human flesh and begins seducing and killing teenage boys.
    Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Conveniently, two beautiful young strangers (Ana de Armas, Lorenza Izzo) come by late one stormy night, inviting themselves in and quickly seducing him.
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • But if the hotel has made the town enticing to a new kind of visitor—say, one who appreciates the convenience of its helipad—the property has none of the hermetic insularity of a traditional resort.
    David Amsden, Travel + Leisure, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Some researchers think that since the last Ice Age Indigenous tribes burned swaths of woodlands to create an environment enticing to game animals.
    Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 29 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Trump has fanned the flames of inflation and passed out tax breaks to billionaires, betraying his promises to lower costs yet again.
    Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Nick Salvatore portrayed Debs as a union leader who gradually came to believe that monopoly capitalism was betraying the American Dream.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
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