Example Sentences

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In the dream, I remember understanding that Drakeo was simultaneously dead and beguilingly close.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2025

The single — a beguilingly modest ballad with the band’s hallmark vocal harmonies and some wistful strings — put most fears to rest.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 24, 2025

If you could get in, though, it could beguilingly intimate.

From Washington Post • Apr. 28, 2023

When it opens, the two are en route to a getaway at an elegant estate, a trip that soon turns beguilingly mysterious.

From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2022

"What was in the letter, Luce?" she said beguilingly.

From Poppy The Story of a South African Girl by Stockley, Cynthia