beguile
verb (used with object)
to influence by trickery, flattery, etc.; mislead; delude.
were beguiling
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past progressiveof beguile.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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His voice dropped to the old, pleading, confidential tone of the itinerant; as if he were beguiling them now to accept the philosophy which he was to set forth.
From The Clarion by William Dodge Stevens
Sundry groups, in different corners, were beguiling the tedious hours at whist.
From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Charles Brockden Brown
The house seemed swarming with boys, who were beguiling the rainy twilight with all sorts of amusements.
From Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
The waiting-room was full of girls, who were beguiling the time with jokes and banter and lively chatter.
From The New Girl at St. Chad's A Story of School Life by Angela Brazil
They were beguiling the time in innocent “jags” pending the arrival of the boat in the river that was to take them out of the Klondyke.
From Colorado Jim by George Goodchild
