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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Little did I think that the whole thing was a game of the young rascals, and that they were beguiling the tedious moments of the sentry-go by pulling a chaplain's leg.
From The Great War As I Saw It by Frederick George Scott
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
It wanted four hours yet until train time and inside the living-room the inspector, Slavin, and Yorke were beguiling the interval in low-voiced conversation.
From The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police by Ralph S. Kendall
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
