How to Use bewitch in a Sentence

bewitch

verb
  • People believed the girls had been bewitched.
  • And the defenders are just bewitched by this shift of the weight.
    — Jon Wertheim, CBS News, 1 Dec. 2025
  • The slow build of tension between the two is bound to bewitch you, body and soul.
    — Sophie Dodd, Peoplemag, 16 May 2024
  • Zoë Kravitz arrives in a bewitching black lace gown.
    — Chelsea Stahl, NBC news, 4 May 2026
  • Masha falls for Nikolai, who bewitches her with his weird love for their work.
    — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Those moments, perhaps more than anything else, can bewitch one's body and soul.
    — Sharareh Drury, People.com, 20 Apr. 2025
  • Arteta is bewitched by his countryman’s talent and just wants more of it to come to the fore.
    — Amy Lawrence, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The floor-length frock was overlaid with a bewitching black and yellow patchwork print.
    — Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2025
  • It’s wired somewhere deep into our caveman brain — we’re bewitched by calamity.
    — Jordan Riefe, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
  • But to do so would be to miss out on the truly bewitching local neighborhood.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
  • What, exactly, is so bewitching about padel?
    — Robin Swithinbank, Robb Report, 9 May 2026
  • These bewitching brownies have a hint of espresso flavor and a cream cheese topping.
    — Kate Merker, Country Living, 21 Sep. 2018
  • Tony Curtis is dressed as a woman and watching her, bewitched from the sidelines.
    — Lyndsey Havens, Billboard, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The images and lighting maintain the project’s bewitching nature from first frame to last.
    — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Annie is bewitched by Sam’s story and spends the rest of the movie trying to figure out what to do about it.
    — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 15 Mar. 2018
  • The remains are men who all sort of look like Shrek when Shrek was bewitched into looking like a man.
    — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 10 July 2018
  • As revenge, the piper played his music and bewitched all the town’s children to follow him out of the city where they were never seen again.
    — Morgan Jerkins, Teen Vogue, 9 Jan. 2019
  • Monogram pumpkins and place them on your front porch for outdoor pumpkin decor that welcomes guests to your bewitching abode.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Oct. 2025
  • For those of you who aren’t bewitched by the beautiful game of fantasy football year-round, welcome!
    — Jay Felicio, The Athletic, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Agatha All Along is still bewitching audiences ahead of the finale next week.
    — Katie Campione, Deadline, 25 Oct. 2024
  • The historic palace has remained a hushed, bewitching getaway from the couple’s home in Paris.
    — Sarah Medford, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2017
  • The baton one of them left behind was to her what ballet shoes are to a girl born to dance or a fielder’s glove is to a boy bewitched by baseball.
    — Tim Woodward, idahostatesman, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Tours were strictly girlfriend-free zones, and here Brian was flaunting his bewitching new lover.
    — Elizabeth Winder, Rolling Stone, 24 July 2023
  • Strauss’s sonic feast remained intact, bewitching the senses even as the brain rebelled.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 3 July 2023
  • Later in the book, London asks her father why people say that her grandmother died bewitched.
    — James Wood, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2019
  • But those bewitched by the darkness of his sound should not discount the pop sensibility that also lies within.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 4 June 2025
  • That bewitching face stopped Bob Dylan and Mick Jagger in their tracks.
    — Sam Kashner, airmail.news, 8 Feb. 2025
  • Horror isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but a spooky atmosphere has a way of bewitching even the jumpiest of scaredy cats.
    — Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Based on a ballad by Goethe, the tone poem tells the story of a budding magician who bewitches a broom to do his chores.
    — Jessica Rudman, courant.com, 7 Dec. 2019
  • Some of the handsomest costumes ever seen in Augusta were only eclipsed by the bright eyes and bewitching smiles.
    — Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 13 Feb. 2026

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