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Example sentences for "inveigle"

Lexicographically close words:
invectives; inveigh; inveighed; inveighing; inveighs; inveigled; inveigling; inveni; invenire; inveniri
  1. Their object must be to inveigle me to have a couple of bowlfuls more than is good for me!

  2. If this is to lure and inveigle a young man into wedlock, the elder Miss Westbrook was guilty of that offence.

  3. Lind taught the boy it was good fun to inveigle unwary people into scientific controversies, to trip them up with catch-questions, and then to laugh at them for being fools.

  4. An arrogant but benevolent machinist deemed it consistent with honor to inveigle counterfeiters.

  5. Smith attempted to inveigle Powhatan into an ambuscade, but the savages, on a nearer approach, discovering the English with arms in their hands, fled.

  6. The duties were external, and did not exceed in amount twenty thousand pounds; but the colonies suspected the mildness of the measure to be only a lure to inveigle them into the net.

  7. So the juggling went on; the Queen blew hot and cold with Alençon, and tried to inveigle France into a league without a marriage; the French tried to get the marriage secured as preliminary to a league.

  8. To Walsingham, alike as patriot and protestant, the death of Mary had long been about the most desirable event that could occur; and now he saw his way to compass it--to inveigle her within reach of the law.

  9. His first plan was to endeavour to inveigle him into his power, by promising, on condition of an annual tribute, to restore his inheritance.

  10. His first care was to inveigle Jaya Krishna into his power, which he did by numerous assurances of friendship, and offers of employment.

  11. The agent you employed to inveigle him into danger is dead, but with his last breath he confessed that he had had his orders from you.

  12. Because they want to inveigle you away--on the staff.

  13. If we could inveigle him into the Russian lines he would be shot or hanged as a traitor.

  14. These were the indications of "better days;" these were the shallow traps set to inveigle the beholder into a belief in the opulence of the occupants of this charming residence.

  15. The keepers of such houses sometimes inveigle innocent young girls into their dens, board and clothe them, and get them in debt, and in fact make them slaves, as sure as those who are bought and sold in southern cities.

  16. I knew there had been some base deception, some wickedness practiced towards that poor girl to inveigle her into that house.

  17. Beware of false friends, for they will turn to be your foes, and inveigle you into houses where you may lose your money and get no redress.

  18. So, I set my five wits on the stretch To inveigle the wretch.

  19. This would explain Cobham's alarm, otherwise unintelligible, that Ralegh meant to inveigle him and other agitators into Jersey, and then give them up.

  20. And thus would he inveigle my belief to think the combustion of Sodom might be natural, and that there was an asphaltick and bituminous nature in that lake before the fire of Gomorrah.

  21. As for the man that makes his tailor his means, and hopes to inveigle his love with such a coloured suit, surely the same deeply hazards the loss of her favour upon every change of his clothes.

  22. He will inveigle you to naughtiness to get your good name into his clutches; he will be your pandar to have you on the hip for a whore-master, and make you drunk to shew you reeling.

  23. Bless me," said he, "if I could only inveigle Johnny Guthrie into an argument about that!

  24. What had come over the Laird's conscience that he actually proposed to inveigle a poor man into a controversy and then to hit him over the head with a sophistical argument?

  25. And as men catch dotterels by putting out a leg or an arm, with those mutual glances of the eyes they first inveigle one another.

  26. Plutarch records of Lucullus that he died of a philter; and that Cleopatra used philters to inveigle Antony, amongst other allurements.

  27. Worse still, you helped to inveigle him into as horrible a plot as ever was concocted.


  28. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inveigle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.