put under a spell
Example Sentences
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Kalman waves her arms around like a wizard; the cast members lead one another around, fingers curled, as if putting one another under a spell, only to be put under a spell in turn.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 9, 2019
It centers on Princess Odette, who has been put under a spell and must live a double life as a swan by day, woman by night, until she finds true love.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 18, 2017
“You know that’s not right. You say, ‘Mr. Damon, you’re lost in the Belgian Congo where you have been put under a spell.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
Here he writes as though he had been put under a spell by Canidia, in revenge for his former calumnies about her.
From Horace by Theodore Martin
We are put under a spell, like the wedding guest, and carried off to the isolation and remoteness of mid-ocean.
From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
