beguile

How To Use beguile In A Sentence

• In an effort to take some of the beguilement out of her young eyes, I make light of your dark and somber task.
• The answer is that he was beguiled into thinking about language and the world in terms of a particular model.
• And he called Herodotus a thief and a beguiler, and “the same with intent to deceive,” as one of their own poets writes. Letters to Dead Authors
• French language (a thing indispensable to the happiness of married life), piano-playing (a thing wherewith to beguile a husband’s leisure moments), and that particular department of housewifery which is comprised in the knitting of purses and other Dead Souls
• I have been told that many of them wear patent complexions, "boughten" bangs, and pad out scrawny forms until they appear voluptuous Junos, and thereby deceive and ensnare, bedazzle and beguile the unsuspecting sons of men. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12
• Jacob knew now, trusting in God as he was, that he did not need to manipulate and beguile and cheat to find favour for himself and his loved ones; he did not have to worry about his welfare.
• Don is especially receptive to Megan's beguilement after settling affairs at Anna's house and getting the ring from Stephanie. Finale Watch: Mad Men, Rubicon
• British journalists are apparently consensually beguiled by the former, while the latter beat desperately on the door of the media, which will not open. Lobbyists can do good but they need to be on a register | letters
• Therewithal she rightly apprehends the danger Bertram is in from the wordy, cozening squirt, the bedizened, scoundrelly dandiprat, who has so beguiled his youth and ignorance. Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters
• We beguiled our time chiefly in eating and drinking.