charmer

Example Sentences

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Very serious games begin when Jimmy Sullivan, a slippery charmer from Honor’s past, becomes her fifth—and most ill-fated—tenant.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

In the candid and clearsighted “Jan Morris,” Ms. Wheeler gives us the “monster and the humane, lovable companion,” the aggressive charmer who boasted of being the “only Lady Card Holder” at the Travellers Club.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

Evelyn Scott was older and considerably richer than her charmer of a husband, L. Ewing Scott, and they lived in Bel-Air.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2026

She said Owens was a "complete charmer" when they first met and started to date but things started to go downhill within a matter of weeks.

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2025

Breathing hard, bent over Tessie with trembling concentration, he moved the clarinet in circles, like a snake charmer.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides