inveigle

How To Use inveigle In A Sentence

• One beggar is too proud to beg for pennies, but will beg for an introduction into society; another does not care for society, but he wants a postmastership; another will inveigle a lawyer into conversation and then sponge on him for free advice. Mark Twain: A Biography
• We have inveigled our way into the cushiest jobs, work the shortest hours, commute less and retire earlier. Times, Sunday Times
• The plot involves three villains who inveigle a girl into prostitution in order to make ends meet.
• Being "tabooed" by all the men who had even as much as caught a passing glimpse of her, this was her last resource -- she would entrap some unwary stranger, a man with money of course, and inveigle him into marrying her. Scottish Ghost Stories
• Equally, the somewhat vulgar individuals known as ‘bar reps’ will attempt to inveigle you into participating in all manner of hideous rituals, known collectively as ‘drinking games’.
• She inveigled him into the house and robbed him while he slept.
• In desperate straits, Nancy senses an opportunity to play on the gratitude of the college and so she and Jake travel to England to inveigle themselves into St Maud's.
• It purports to be a tale about a man who inveigles himself into a false identity, but this aspect of the plot never emerges clearly.
• It's like trying to inveigle myself into the best house ever, and yet knowing all the time that no matter how great I am, there'll always be someone they like better than me.
• This ruse worked well for some time, but finally the Folk no longer were inveigled into showing themselves. CHAPTER XVII