- present tense form of beguile (3rd person singular).
beguiles
Example Sentences
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We witness McFadin as he smilingly interrogates—and intimidates—witnesses and plaintiffs, beguiles juries and sweet-talks judges, knocking down charges against Kenrex as if bowling strike after strike.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
It’s an idea that always beguiles but never delivers.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2024
You need a thing that beguiles its way into people’s lives and then beguiles them into becoming programmers.
From The Verge ● Mar. 8, 2022
This movie — the story of how she returns home — beguiles and fascinates on several levels.
From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2020
That playfulness of sorrow ne'er beguiles; It smiles in bitterness: but still it smiles, And sometimes with the wisest and the best.
From My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. by Hugh Miller
