BEGUILE in a Sentence

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12 example sentences for BEGUILE, such as:

1. She beguiled them into believing her version of events.
2. The teacher used to beguile her pupils with fairy tales.
3. They beguiled the time by backbiting and intriguing against each other in a foolish kind of way.
4. Parted lovers beguile absence by a thousand chimerical devices, which possess, however, a reality of their own.
5. With flattery and big talk of easy money, the con men beguile Kyle into betting his allowance on the shell game.

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 Meanings and Examples of BEGUILE
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beguile
 v.  mislead; delude; deceive by guile
Classic Sentence:
1  Mentor," he cried, "do not let Ulysses beguile you into siding with him and fighting the suitors.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XXII
2  A great multitude had already assembled; the windows were filled with people, smoking and playing cards to beguile the time; the crowd were pushing, quarrelling, joking.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
3  Parted lovers beguile absence by a thousand chimerical devices, which possess, however, a reality of their own.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—A HEART BENEATH A STONE
4  Thus in the Vale of Arcady nymph and satyr beguiled the hours; precisely thus, and not in honeyed pentameters, discoursed Elaine and the worn Sir Launcelot in the pleached alley.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
5  Phineas seemed, on the whole, the briskest of the company, and beguiled his long drive with whistling certain very unquaker-like songs, as he went on.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
6  As the omnibus contained only one other passenger, a sleepy old lady, Amy pocketed her veil and beguiled the tedium of the way by trying to find out where all her money had gone to.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
7  They beguiled the time by backbiting and intriguing against each other in a foolish kind of way.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In I
8  '"'My son,' she answered, 'most ill-fated of all mankind, it is not Proserpine that is beguiling you, but all people are like this when they are dead.'
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XI
9  Catherine told Hareton who she was, and where she was going; and asked him to show her the way: finally, beguiling him to accompany her.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
Example Sentence:
1  With flattery and big talk of easy money, the con men beguile Kyle into betting his allowance on the shell game.
2  The teacher used to beguile her pupils with fairy tales.
3  She beguiled them into believing her version of events.