Example Sentences

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Beguiled by photos of teensy piglets, she chose the runt of the litter—a tiny, shivering nugget for $350.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026

Beguiled by Adams’s energy and enthusiasm, Bridgers brought her best songs.

From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2019

Colin Farrell's wounded Union soldier hides out in Nicole Kidman's all-female Southern boarding in Sofia Coppola's 2017 Civil War-era thriller "The Beguiled."

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2018

Both Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled and Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Killing of a Sacred Deer paired her winningly with Colin Farrell, with Kidman adding a cool elegance to his unpredictable febrility.

From The Guardian • Dec. 23, 2017

Poor Max, with downcast, reverent head, Regards his brother's form outspread; Full well Max knows the friend is dead Whose cordial talk, And jokes in doggish language said, Beguiled his walk.

From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Arnold, Matthew