Example sentences for: enchantment

How can you use “enchantment” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • That idea inspired his most famous book, The Uses of Enchantment (1976).

  • Critics blast the sappy romance as well as the "dismayingly formulaic view of enchantment.

  • The director clearly adores Ryan, but she's the actress's worst enemy, goading her into ever more sickening reaches of chin-wagging cuteness--such as her fatuous look of enchantment on the subway or the furtive little hip-hops to her laptop after her Luddite boyfriend has left for the office.

  • In an essay in the New York Times , Edward Rothstein refers to the "enchantment of fascism" being "undone" by "other spells, some recalling the innocence of childhood"--and, indeed, Benigni's routines are sometimes childishly liberating, conjuring up Fo, Harpo Marx, and Danny Kaye in his double-talk mode.

  • Back in the eighteenth century one of the meanings of grammar was “magic, enchantment”; the Scots let slip the r into an l , and lo, came forth glamour . In the popular mind, grammar is anything but glamorous.


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