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Example sentences for "inveigled"

Lexicographically close words:
inveigh; inveighed; inveighing; inveighs; inveigle; inveigling; inveni; invenire; inveniri; invenit
  1. Why, therefore, had I permitted myself to be inveigled into asking Flora to visit me, under the supposition that I was going to help her?

  2. Cary would never listen to a word about it, nor read about it in the papers; nor could she be inveigled into expressing an opinion about it one way or the other.

  3. It was getting late, and to extricate himself from the crowd, Gyfford allowed the whole party to be inveigled into a small enclosure.

  4. And then she pretended to find all sorts of excuses for Florent: it wasn't his fault; he was no doubt a bachelor; these women had very likely inveigled him in their snares.

  5. He had caught a glimpse of the back of a lady, who was just disappearing through one doorway as he was entering by another, and had taken her to be Madame Robine.

  6. Five huge stone slabs stretched out in the direction of the Rue Rambuteau under the yellow light of the gas jets.

  7. You inveigled me once into tasting the decoction, and methinks that should satisfy thee, if not me.

  8. At the time when he inveigled Edmund Dunning into entrusting property to his hands, his affairs were in an embarrassed condition, and he needed then and now the funds to save him from ruin.

  9. The man who did that was a scheming rascal who had inveigled Mr. Wadhurst's daughter into a marriage with him and got arrested for a swindle on the steps of the church.

  10. This shows us that sixty per cent are led into it by some scheme or entrapped and sold, and at least two-thirds of this number are from our own country, being inveigled from farms, towns and cities.

  11. How many scores of young women have by these means been inveigled into a foreign land, to find themselves hopelessly enslaved into a life which is worse than a living death.

  12. Having inveigled me hither, he demanded of me to give him at once this insignificant trifle.

  13. I have already mentioned the arts by which Rana Bahadur inveigled Prithwi Pal, and the chief officers of that prince, into his power; in which he showed no symptoms of insanity, unless a shameless perfidy be considered as such.

  14. It is said that we were inveigled into the war by the perfidy of France; and that had she furnished the document in time, which was first published in England, in May last, it would have been prevented.

  15. I declare confidently and boldly that Napoleon has inveigled us into the war.

  16. In spite of herself, however, something of bitterness crept into her next note to Roger Lumsden, who had inveigled her, she hardly knew how, into regular correspondence.

  17. The man's devilish cunning showed itself in having inveigled the old man to that storehouse on the river bank, rather than to have killer the Spider in the Spider's own home.

  18. If a girl desires a particular man he is inveigled into her house, the door is shut, the walls are hung with cloth of different colors and other ornaments, dinner is served up and he is informed of the girl's wish to marry him.

  19. She had, however, come for a very different purpose, having been, with her queen mother, inveigled from home under the pretext that Achilles was to make her his wife.

  20. It was the occasion of what was generally known as a Scrimmage Party at The Ghan House, to which he has been inveigled partly on false pretences.

  21. Once he inveigled her into the sanctum itself.

  22. He felt as if by some rather nice accident he had been inveigled into playing a new game.

  23. I can see that I have been inveigled in here.

  24. I attempted to force a duel on the man I had inveigled into my house.

  25. A young man is inveigled into a marriage with a woman whom he looks upon as an angel of purity; and in a few hours he discovers her to be a demon of pollution.

  26. I understand you already,” interrupted the earl, in a tone of deep commiseration: “the artful creature has inveigled your son into a hasty marriage.

  27. Some enterprising Californians had inveigled him into buying some big red oak (redwood) wine casks and selling them to Chilean vintners.

  28. You'll find a groom is the most unnecessary necessity modern society ever inveigled an unsuspecting public into.

  29. This card he had inveigled from a tourist at the King Edward Hotel.

  30. You see, I wasn't inveigled much into the desirableness of having infants around a ranch, except the kind that feed themselves and sell for so much on the hoof when they grow up.

  31. For the next hour she kept well ahead of him, refusing to be inveigled into any topic of conversation whatever.

  32. He refused to be inveigled into sympathy.


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