How to Use bewitch in a Sentence

bewitch

verb
  • People believed the girls had been bewitched.
  • The slow build of tension between the two is bound to bewitch you, body and soul.
    Sophie Dodd, Peoplemag, 16 May 2024
  • Annie is bewitched by Sam’s story and spends the rest of the movie trying to figure out what to do about it.
    Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 15 Mar. 2018
  • The remains are men who all sort of look like Shrek when Shrek was bewitched into looking like a man.
    Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 10 July 2018
  • Masha falls for Nikolai, who bewitches her with his weird love for their work.
    Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2024
  • As revenge, the piper played his music and bewitched all the town’s children to follow him out of the city where they were never seen again.
    Morgan Jerkins, Teen Vogue, 9 Jan. 2019
  • Tony Curtis is dressed as a woman and watching her, bewitched from the sidelines.
    Lyndsey Havens, Billboard, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The images and lighting maintain the project’s bewitching nature from first frame to last.
    Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 8 Dec. 2023
  • The diviner confirms the man’s fears: two women have bewitched his wife.
    Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
  • The historic palace has remained a hushed, bewitching getaway from the couple’s home in Paris.
    Sarah Medford, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Hopefully, this one will and fans can be bewitched by Samantha and Darrin (and Aunt Clara) all over again.
    Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 17 Feb. 2024
  • The baton one of them left behind was to her what ballet shoes are to a girl born to dance or a fielder’s glove is to a boy bewitched by baseball.
    Tim Woodward, idahostatesman, 13 Oct. 2017
  • And Axios co-founder Mike Allen relays his take on the tomfoolery bewitching the swamp.
    Jon Kelly, The Hive, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Based on a ballad by Goethe, the tone poem tells the story of a budding magician who bewitches a broom to do his chores.
    Jessica Rudman, courant.com, 7 Dec. 2019
  • Alyssa Milano drove voters to the polls but couldn't bewitch the Republicans.
    Author: Maureen Dowd, Alaska Dispatch News, 26 June 2017
  • These bewitching brownies have a hint of espresso flavor and a cream cheese topping.
    Kate Merker, Country Living, 21 Sep. 2018
  • Yet since April 26, the ‘paradise of the Philippines‘ hasn’t played host to the usual legions of tourists, bewitched by the Instagrammable images of its stunning vistas.
    Suyin Haynes, Time, 16 May 2018
  • When paired with the sparkling catsuit, Swift looks like an enchanted being who could bewitch you with a look and then vanish into a mist of glitter.
    Kara Nesvig, Allure, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Anyone with a brain and a heartbeat will find something to bewitch, beguile, and, yes, bewilder since the art’s both cutting-edge and bleeding-edge.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 23 Sep. 2020
  • One reason is the fact of Texas itself — there was something bewitching about the state for artists of Kelly’s generation.
    M.h. Miller, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Also coming out from the shadows were bewitching looks.
    Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Tours were strictly girlfriend-free zones, and here Brian was flaunting his bewitching new lover.
    Elizabeth Winder, Rolling Stone, 24 July 2023
  • Later in the book, London asks her father why people say that her grandmother died bewitched.
    James Wood, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2019
  • It’s wired somewhere deep into our caveman brain — we’re bewitched by calamity.
    Jordan Riefe, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
  • From the moment this bewitching young woman enters the frame (diving into a lake on whose shores Ginia and her friends are gathered at), Ginia is smitten.
    Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 9 Aug. 2024
  • The pair talks about the dangers of smoking, as their young audience nods and murmurs, looking bewitched by the flamboyant puppets.
    Didem Tali, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Strauss’s sonic feast remained intact, bewitching the senses even as the brain rebelled.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 3 July 2023
  • That choice is part of a bewitching structure that drifts in and out of the character’s work routine to show how the mental labor continues after hours.
    Stephen Saito, Variety, 16 Mar. 2024
  • Even before the fire bursts onto the scene, her descriptions of the natural world are bewitching and distressing.
    Kayla Maiuri, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2024
  • But there is wonder aplenty, a sense of something truly strange and bewitching awaiting visitors just beyond the front door.
    Mayer Rus, Architectural Digest, 8 Oct. 2024

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