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.
  • But in fact, the flowers were not meant to beguile humans.
    — Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
  • In fact, the flowers were not meant to beguile humans.
    — Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
  • And too many here at home are beguiled by socialism’s false promises.
    — The Editors, National Review, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Many a man was beguiled by those eyes, searching for his own reflection in their depths.
    — Negar Azimi, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Unlike the naïve young analysand, we won’t be beguiled by Lucy’s blunt advice.
    — Nicole Rudick, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2019
  • She was beguiled by the idea of reinventing herself each time she was uprooted.
    — Christine Whitney, The Cut, 14 Sep. 2017
  • One is a siren, the human-like creature with an enchanting voice that beguiled sailors to their watery death.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Consumers are seduced and beguiled by flavorists without even being aware of it.
    — Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2019
  • And for the past 13 years, one particular project has gone above and beyond to beguile them.
    — Sarah Medford, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2017
  • 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 survey presents a look back at over a decade of Yi’s production, which has beguiled viewers for just as long.
    — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 6 Sep. 2024
  • You’re beguiled into believing that there is nothing this actress can’t do.
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Of course, the easy conclusion is that we have been beguiled by the system or the parties or the candidates.
    — Beth Greenfield, Fortune, 1 July 2024
  • Even as disembodied typists, the bots can beguile.
    — Damon Beres, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2025
  • 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 season already seems to have brought a bewildering — and at times beguiling — array of fads.
    — Diana Tsui, The Cut, 10 July 2018
  • One installation, made from piles of rubble and scree beguiles the clientele but confounds the cleaners.
    — Thomas Page, CNN, 24 May 2017
  • Her voice wasn't a typical Broadway belt -- in fact, quite the opposite -- but beguiling just the same.
    — Rebecca Milzoff, Billboard, 18 Aug. 2017
  • The amendments contain a gimmick meant to beguile the opposition.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2026
  • She was beguiled by the tropical beauty of the grasslands, where rivers swell during the summers and people lead placid lives on their margins.
    — Ana Karina Zatarain, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2024
  • The first day’s strong winds subsided enough to allow me to snorkel along a rocky outcropping where at least 20 kinds of fish beguiled my senses.
    — Doug Hansen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • Few embody a tortured, beguiling Americana quite like her.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2026
  • The results of all those frames are beguiling slow-motion shots that show just how close riders’ body parts are to touching the pavement while leaning during turns.
    — Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The film takes place behind the gates of a remote retirement community, where a starry-eyed nurse is beguiled by a string of perverse scam calls.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 16 July 2024
  • But the Blue Box retailer is hardly the only high-end jeweler beguiled by the life aquatic.
    — Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 14 Aug. 2023

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