bewitch

Unlike Godard, he doesn’t try to bewitch you with theory.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025

The prosecution alleged that Phiri and Candunde were hired by a fugitive former MP to bewitch Hichilema.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2025

Washington, having spurned a crown himself, recognized the siren song that could bewitch even ostensibly democratic leaders, particularly in polities where checks on power are easily subverted.

From Slate ● Feb. 17, 2025

While “I Put a Spell on You” is a fan-favorite, the super-creepy “Come Little Children,” sung by Parker’s Sarah to bewitch children for eating, is also a memorable performance.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2022

The Creevey brothers had managed to get hold of a stack of Support Cedric Diggory! badges and were trying to bewitch them to make them say Support Harry Potter! instead.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

He has constructed a glossy fever dream that bewitches as much as it befuddles.

From Salon ● May 20, 2022

An Ozark faith healer bewitches two construction engineers.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2020

The garden — also rich in watery pools and jumbo succulents in bright pots — still bewitches with its far-from-the-dusty-medina vibe.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 1, 2019

But Ms. Schulman does supply a magical, lighter-than-air young girl who bewitches Jake in the Daisy Buchanan manner, even if her name is Audrey and her heritage is Chinese.

From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2011

“Nick Huntsman swears that he bewitches them,” said Charles, “for they always lose the scent when he is in the field, but I believe ’tis the wry looks of him that throw them all out.”

From A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago by Charlotte Mary Yonge

It was hearing Murphy speak of his creative process that bewitched Hunnam into that “Yes.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

Studebaker halted Avanti production after only a year; but the design lived on until 2006, with its rights passing through a succession of wildcat coachbuilders too bewitched to help themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2025

"Wicked" has bewitched even its most reluctant fans, enticing them to overstay their welcome in the magical world of Oz.

From Salon ● Mar. 2, 2025

He said it was she who first bewitched him when he worked as a page in the stacks of the Johns Hopkins University library in Baltimore as an undergraduate.

From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2024

Yet I couldn’t stop playing, as though my hands were bewitched.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan

The title track, which emphasizes the rapper’s new level of stardom, is anchored by a gleaming flip of Linda Clifford’s “Never Gonna Stop,” just four notes circling in a bewitching loop.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

She conjures a bewitching onscreen presence that many of her contemporaries could only dream of, pulling the viewer’s gaze with a single glare from her steely eyes or the quiver of her chin.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026

What’s so bewitching about Mexico City, and the country at large, Iñárritu thinks, is the people’s worldview and how they confront their realities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2026

Gloriously unpredictable and, at times, impossible to read, they are wildly entertaining - bewildering, bewitching, brilliant.

From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026

For a little while Emma persevered in her silence; but beginning to apprehend the bewitching flattery of that letter might be too powerful, she thought it best to say,

From "Emma" by Jane Austen