Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: charms
IPA transcription: [tʃ'ɑɹmz]
Usage examples
  • Of course, age has its charms.'
  • Therefore they were in great esteem as love charms.
  • Her gown, too, was the best she could have worn to show her charms.
  • Every five minutes, by removing some of the crowd, gave greater openings for her charms.
  • In some things nature has lavished upon them charms and beauties which no human skill can imitate.
  • These were the charms which he could not bear to think his son had sacrificed to the daughter of Mrs Miller.
  • Laura had her own reasons for wishing to know the Senator, and the Senator was not a man who could be called indifferent to charms such as hers.
  • To all the charms of beauty and the utmost elegance of external form, Mary added those accomplishments which render their impression irresistible.
  • This papyrus is a medical treatise; there are in it no incantations or charms; but it deals in reasonable remedies, draughts, unguents and injections.
  • So fearful is its portrayal of social disease, so ruthless its stripping of the painted charms from vice, that its tendency cannot but be strongly for good.