beguile

in a sentence

And at table seven was none other than the beguiling Anna Urbanova...  (source) Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016

The Teacher pondered Saunière's beguiling riddle.  (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

DANFORTH: Now hear me, and beguile yourselves no more.  (source) Arthur Miller, The Crucible, 1953

Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern; and having read all the newspapers, and beguiled the rest of the evening with his banker's-book, went home to bed.  (source) Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, 1843

VLADIMIR: All I know is that the hours are long, under these conditions, and constrain us to beguile them with proceedings which —how shall I say— whichmay at first sight seem reasonable, until they become a habit.†  (source) Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot, 1953

But Timur is wildly sociable, his faults forever absolved by good humor, a determined friendliness, and a beguiling air of innocence that endears him to people he meets.  (source) Khaled Hosseini, And The Mountains Echoed, 2013

You know how the old song goes: In this way and that, one beguiles the groom.†  (source) Henry Roth, Call It Sleep, 1934

It would have been easy to get into a sad, wild tangle about how much I might betray; but the real account, I feel, of the hours of peace that I could still enjoy was that the immediate charm of my companions was a beguilement still effective even under the shadow of the possibility that it was studied.†  (source) Henry James, The Turn of the Screw, 1898

And so this fresh American experience with its hint of bucolic beguilements gave her a thrill of joy and anticipation keener than any of its kind since those childhood summers when the train chuffed out from the Cracow station toward Vienna and the Alto Adige and the swirling mists of the Dolomites.†  (source) William Styron, Sophie's Choice, 1976

Is it not enough that thou beguilest feeble women?†  (source) Homer, The Iliad, -850 B.C.

Ralph Touchett took his refreshment wherever he could find it, and he would not have forgiven himself if he had been left wholly unbeguiled by such a mistress of the social art.†  (source) Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady - Volumes 1 & 2, 1881

Fermat's theorem was a beguilingly simple task.†  (source) Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire, 2009

The needle dropped on a record and Doris Day's voice quavered into the alley: I'm wild again, beguiled again, A simpering, whimpering child again.†  (source) David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, 2008