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Example sentences for "infatuate"

Lexicographically close words:
infantrymen; infants; infantum; infare; infarnal; infatuated; infatuating; infatuation; infatuations; infect
  1. You have been led perhaps by an infatuate zeal in behalf of those, whom you term your co-religionists, to the committal of an offense upon the person of your superior officer.

  2. The infatuate populace, indifferent to the progress of the Revolution, unaffected for the most part by the righteousness of the cause of the Colonists, became enamored of the brilliance and the fashion and the display of the English nobility.

  3. Then Jove of sober judgment so bereft Infatuate Glaucus that with Tydeus' son He barter'd gold for brass, an hundred beeves 290 In value, for the value small of nine.

  4. So Pallas spake, to whom infatuate he Listening, uncased at once his polished bow.

  5. Who, loving life, hath sought I 1 To outlive the appointed span, Shall be arraigned before my thought For an infatuate man.

  6. Thus he warned The infatuate one: ay, one whom I behold, For all may read my riddle--thou art he.

  7. To mongrel curs infatuate cities bow, And cats and fishes share the frequent vow!

  8. Who knows not that infatuate Egypt finds Gods to adore in brutes of basest kinds?

  9. Then first stood up Leiodes, son of Oenops, who was their soothsayer and ever sat by the fair mixing bowl at the extremity of the hall; he alone hated their infatuate deeds and was indignant with all the wooers.

  10. Yea, and I too once was like to have been prosperous among men, but many an infatuate deed I did, giving place to mine own hardihood and strength, and trusting to my father and my brethren.

  11. But thither into the company of the wooers would I not suffer him to go, for they are exceeding full of infatuate insolence, lest they mock at him, and that would be a sore grief to me.

  12. With these I will go forth, for I see evil coming on you, which not one man of the wooers may avoid or shun, of all you who in the house of divine Odysseus deal insolently with men and devise infatuate deeds.

  13. For there are no mortal men, methinks, so wanton as these, and none that devise such infatuate deeds.

  14. Wherefore they have suffered an evil doom through their own infatuate deeds.

  15. Oh that the gods would clothe me with such strength as his, that I might take vengeance on the wooers for their cruel transgression, who wantonly devise against me infatuate deeds!

  16. Wherefore they have met a shameful death through their own infatuate deeds.

  17. But savage Cacus, infatuate to leave nothing undared or unhandled in craft or crime, drives four bulls of choice shape away from their pasturage, and as many heifers of excellent beauty.

  18. But now, since he had resigned that infatuate ambition and turned apostate to all his vows, his part in character had been to laugh in Wertheimer's face and bid him go to the devil ere a worse thing befall him.

  19. The wiseacres were smiling at him, he supposed; smiling as the world always smiled at the spectacle of infatuate age mating with tolerant, indifferently acquiescent youth.

  20. The infatuate impulse prevailed, to confess and take the consequences.

  21. But now some god and an infatuate soul Have stirred betwixt them a mad rivalry To grasp at sovereignty and kingly power.

  22. I am not so infatuate as to grasp The shadow when I hold the substance fast.

  23. Various their judgments were, but none believed That he had slain him wittingly, nor saw Th' infatuate men fate hov'ring o'er them all.

  24. Every self-preserving instinct would have shrieked at such an infatuate immolation.

  25. Why this infatuate thirst for sympathy, this eagerness to violate the seals of reticence at the wish of a strange woman?

  26. He made slow work of that, fumbling while watching Ekstrom with unremitting intentness, hoping against hope that his enemy might make one false move, one only, by some infatuate endeavour to turn the tables excuse his killing.

  27. Alone among them this Monsieur Duchemin paraded successfully a false face of resignation, protesting no predilection whatsoever for a watery grave, no infatuate haste to challenge the Hun upon his chosen hunting-ground.


  28. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "infatuate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    addict; admirer; amateur; attract; beguile; beset; besotted; bewitch; bewitched; buff; bug; captivate; captivated; charm; charmed; collector; compel; crank; demon; devotee; drive; dupe; enamored; enchant; enchanted; endear; enrapture; enraptured; enthrall; enthusiast; entrance; fan; fanatic; fascinate; fascinated; fiend; follower; freak; grip; gull; hold; hound; hypnotize; impel; infatuate; infatuated; intoxicate; intrigue; lover; mesmerize; nut; obsess; paramour; possess; preoccupy; pursuer; rhapsodist; seduce; smitten; spell; stultify; suitor; tantalize; tempt; transport; vamp; visionary; witch; zealot