How to Use beguiling in a Sentence

beguiling

adjective
  • But there is more to these beguiling relics than meets the eye.
    Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 15 Feb. 2018
  • On top of which, there was a new, more beguiling speed to attain: the speed of sound.
    A-LIST, 24 Dec. 2017
  • But he’s never made a follow-up as strange and beguiling as Babe: Pig in the City.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2020
  • But the most beguiling aspect of this image is the pale blue dot, poised just inside the G ring.
    Discover Magazine, 15 Feb. 2013
  • But this is how so many great debuts feel—like a beguiling series of doors, kicked open and slammed shut.
    Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024
  • The beguiling Leading Player of the troupe is played by Robert Zelaya.
    David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 July 2023
  • The grandchild reaches not for the apple but for the beguiling ribbon.
    Patricia Hampl, WSJ, 21 June 2018
  • Keeneland Racecourse, which opens today for its spring meet, is a beguiling mixture of the quaint and the cutting edge.
    Eric Banks, Town & Country, 5 Apr. 2013
  • And so Romo will sling his beguiling slider at them for a short burst before turning it over to the rest of the Rays’ staff.
    Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 24 May 2018
  • But Dafoe and Pattinson have the stage pretty much to themselves, and the result is a beguiling crunch of styles.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2019
  • So what was initially the biggest pain point of the project became one of the most beguiling and beautiful rooms in the house.
    Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Both provide the instant rush of torque that proves so beguiling, with the test car reaching 60 mph in a scant three seconds.
    Tribune News Service, Dallas News, 25 Mar. 2023
  • On the Space One Pro, this track was utterly beguiling.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Aero, a wee Danish island huddled in the Baltic Sea, couldn’t be more beguiling.
    Jeanine Barone, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022
  • With stills, there's always the same instant, frozen and beguiling, but lifeless.
    Carmel Dagan, chicagotribune.com, 3 Aug. 2019
  • The movie is infused with enough of Burton’s beguiling gothic vibe to kick off the Halloween season, but the plot holes are large enough for the Great Pumpkin to fill.
    Troy Aidan Sambajon, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Sep. 2024
  • But there's more, much more, in this first L.A. solo presentation, and all of it is just as beguiling.
    Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 8 June 2019
  • Well worth a bite… a beguiling entry into the thoughts of Dracula and his ilk living among us.
    Jocelyn McClurg, USA TODAY, 30 June 2018
  • Soon, along with Cruise’s character, the rest of America would fall in love with one of the most beguiling, down-to-earth personae to hit the screen since Jean Arthur.
    Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2019
  • Check out some of her campaign shots, then channel her beguiling vibes with our picks below.
    Marina Liao, Marie Claire, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Get your fill of more romance, horror and beguiling women on June 23.
    Julie Kosin, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 Mar. 2017
  • As beguiling as so many of the maps are visually, their contexts and backstories can be even more so.
    Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2023
  • While this is certainly a beguiling theory, the fate of one Grey's Anatomy cast member kind of throws the whole thing off.
    Emily Wang, Glamour, 3 May 2018
  • The cycle of the gambler—from despair and lack to hope and reward—was endless, both frustrating and beguiling.
    Victor Lodato, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
  • The most beguiling detail in this modest work is the idea that responding to U.F.O.s, and to the aliens who pilot them, is a matter of common courtesy.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Hagar Qim and Mnajdra, on the southwest coast, are two of the most prominent and beguiling.
    Alice Short, latimes.com, 8 Apr. 2018
  • His subject was, indeed, a reluctant prince, and hence the beguiling title of this book.
    David Shribman, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2019
  • Japan is one of the most beguiling countries on earth, with a mile-long list of acclaimed books parsing its history and culture.
    Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Mar. 2020
  • The Guest centers on the toxic and beguiling relationship between a successful business owner, Fran, and her employee, Ria.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2024
  • There is a beguiling rebelliousness to an unproductive fruit tree.
    Manjula Martin, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024

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