beguile

How to use beguile in a sentence

Elicited by sunlight at dusk or dawn, and juxtaposed with more emphatic hues, shades of pink can beguile and tantalize.

At night, I sat a long time on the deck, listening to the sea songs with which the crew beguile the evening watch.

All day long I sully sheet after sheet of paper and beguile the tedious hours with the half-faded recollections of my childhood.

MARGUERITEANATOLE FRANCE

Seeing her come back to life I gave her more flowers and sang to her, endeavouring to beguile her.

MARGUERITEANATOLE FRANCE

He replied, "Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels."

Beside the provisions lay the flute, whose notes had lately been called forth by the lonely watcher to beguile a tedious hour.

The Circassians also beguile the way on their journeys with riding songs.

LIFE OF SCHAMYLJOHN MILTON MACKIE

No party had been alluring enough to beguile her from her books.

Zeus reflects on his promise, and sends a false Dream to beguile Agamemnon, promising that now he shall take Troy.

And the weary hunters beguile the long silence of a desert night with the mirth and wonders of a tale.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985