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 the medium, he decided to make a second film, on the tenacity of faith among Holocaust survivors.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2024

I would have liked to see Sofia Coppola apply her Vogue aesthetic to some of the baser bodily functions at the end of The Beguiled.

From The Guardian • Jul. 5, 2018

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

Beguiled by unseen devils, she had talked strange and wicked things to Abigail Williams, and turned her to stone.

From Silent Struggles by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)