Sample Sentences forbeguile (editor-reviewed)
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Few men could remain detached while looking into her beguiling eyes.beguiling = enchanting; or enchanting and deceptive
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Here's some books to beguile your downtime this summer.beguile = entertain (or make time pass pleasantly)
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She was wined, dined, and beguiled into signing the contract.beguiled = tricked
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DANFORTH: Now hear me, and beguile yourselves no more. (source)beguile = deceive
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And at table seven was none other than the beguiling Anna Urbanova... (source)beguiling = enchanting
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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)beguiling = charming or enchanting
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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)beguiled = was entertained for
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Blanche Ingram, after having repelled, by supercilious taciturnity, some efforts of Mrs. Dent and Mrs. Eshton to draw her into conversation, had first murmured over some sentimental tunes and airs on the piano, and then, having fetched a novel from the library, had flung herself in haughty listlessness on a sofa, and prepared to beguile, by the spell of fiction, the tedious hours of absence.† (source)
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But spruce groves are seductive and yellow nuts of gum beguiling; they picked and loitered and strayed; and as usual the first thing that recalled them to a sense of the flight of time was Jimmy Glover shouting from the top of a patriarchal old spruce "Master's coming." (source)beguiling = charming or enchanting
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Ah, then, I suppose you heard Haidee's guzla; the poor exile frequently beguiles a weary hour in playing over to me the airs of her native land.† (source)
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BOOK FOURTEEN — Beguilement on Mount Ida† (source)
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Each must hie to her own home; wend you we might do all these journeys in one so brief life as He hath appointed that created life, and thereto death likewise with help of Adam, who by sin done through persuasion of his helpmeet, she being wrought upon and bewrayed by the beguilements of the great enemy of man, that serpent hight Satan, aforetime consecrated and set apart unto that evil work by overmastering spite and envy begotten in his heart through fell ambitions that did blight and mildew a nature erst so white and pure whenso it hove with the shining multitudes its brethren-born in glade and shade of that fair heaven wherein all such as native be to that rich estate and—† (source)
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Fermat's theorem was a beguilingly simple task.† (source)
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Thou shalt not paint thy confession with fair and subtle words, to cover the more thy sin; for then beguilest thou thyself, and not the priest; thou must tell it plainly, be it never so foul nor so horrible.† (source)standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-st" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou beguilest" in older English, today we say "You beguile."
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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)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unbeguiled means not and reverses the meaning of beguiled. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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But Billy Pilgrim wasn't beguiled by the back of the store.† (source)
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