How to Use beguile in a Sentence

beguile

verb

• She was cunning enough to beguile her classmates into doing the work for her.
• They were beguiled into thinking they'd heard the whole story.
• He beguiled the audience with his smooth and seductive voice.
• Almost everything in the quaint little town beguiles, from its architecture to its art to its people.
• She was beguiled by the idea of reinventing herself each time she was uprooted.
  — Christine Whitney, The Cut, 14 Sep. 2017
• Unlike the naïve young analysand, we won’t be beguiled by Lucy’s blunt advice.
  — Nicole Rudick, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2019
• Swanning around in a fluffy new ball gown in an effort to beguile Bill was not the worst offense in his playbook.
  — Amy Fine Collins, Town & Country, 15 Aug. 2018
• The presto of the third was kept extra-presto, with beguiling feints (or faints?) of volume in the repeating theme of the strings.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 13 May 2023
• One installation, made from piles of rubble and scree beguiles the clientele but confounds the cleaners.
  — Thomas Page, CNN, 24 May 2017
• Consumers are seduced and beguiled by flavorists without even being aware of it.
  — Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2019
• Intense and dense one moment, airy and inviting the next, her music can beguile even in its thorniest moments.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 July 2021
• But this informality may beguile the wider audience to which the book is addressed.
  — Lisa Anderson, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2021
• And for the past 13 years, one particular project has gone above and beyond to beguile them.
  — Sarah Medford, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2017
• And Kevin beguiles the guys with tales of Tuscaloosa as the fellas try to determine what a win over Alabama means in the great scheme of things.
  — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 13 Sep. 2023
• But this season already seems to have brought a bewildering — and at times beguiling — array of fads.
  — Diana Tsui, The Cut, 10 July 2018
• You’re beguiled into believing that there is nothing this actress can’t do.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2023
• That certainly seems to be the case from the wealth of dance that beguiles the summer months, outdoors and indoors, at buzzy arts meccas and under-the-radar nooks.
  — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
• But the Blue Box retailer is hardly the only high-end jeweler beguiled by the life aquatic.
  — Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 14 Aug. 2023
• What’s needed is a better understanding of where these views about rental housing come from and what messages might beguile voters from them.
  — Roger Valdez, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
• And over the weekend, designers tapped into the exquisite tension between these two camps with a host of beguiling beauty looks on the runway.
  — Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 10 Sep. 2018
• But the summers of the Pacific Northwest beguiled him, along with an arty scene of kindred directors.
  — Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
• These people are surviving on potatoes and faith; their lives are hard; and the controversy is beguiling.
  — Nina MacLaughlin, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• Her voice wasn't a typical Broadway belt -- in fact, quite the opposite -- but beguiling just the same.
  — Rebecca Milzoff, Billboard, 18 Aug. 2017
• His smile serves as translation: Le Comptoir du Vin beguiles diners from the start.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2020
• The result, however, is a scene that’s beguiling yet rudderless.
  — Owen Gleiberman, chicagotribune.com, 7 Aug. 2019
• Packed with choral numbers, arias, and beguiling orchestral interludes, the music broods and surges.
  — Georgia Rowe, The Mercury News, 17 Feb. 2017
• They were enchanted by the temples, many of which were still buried ceiling-deep in sand, and beguiled by the almost impossibly green riverside fields.
  — Peter Schwartzstein, Smithsonian, 11 Dec. 2017
• Elicited by sunlight at dusk or dawn, and juxtaposed with more emphatic hues, shades of pink can beguile and tantalize.
  — Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2021
• His portrayal of the flirty seductive Jae-eon is sure to beguile his existing fans and possibly win him some new ones.
  — Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 21 June 2021
• But this is one resourceful rodent, and who isn’t just a little beguiled by his determination?
  — New York Times, 22 Nov. 2019

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024