Example Sentences

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Martin, a respected doctor, is charming, as handsome as “an Italian movie star” and sociopathically deceitful.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

Ushikubo is charming and affable, with a poise that radiates outward.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2025

Schwarzenegger is charming but the joke runs thin faaaast.

From New York Times • Feb. 11, 2024

It is charming and funny and witty and weird — all the things that a movie should be.

From Salon • Nov. 29, 2023

I tell him what I'm seeing, doing, eating, drinking in Paris, and more about Lou, who is charming, kind, and—there's no denying it—physically beautiful.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins