1.   At the Music Box, on Avenue B, Ms. Sohn attempted to charm her way to the front of a line for a pool table.

2.   Bridges deserves credit for amiably charming his way past this stumbling block to credibility.

3.   Clearly, Branson has found the right mix of bravura and boyish effusiveness to charm his way into British hearts.

4.   During his long career, Clark charmed his way into the good graces of presidents and politicians, movie stars and farm workers.

5.   He has wriggled and charmed his way out of any number of scrapes and embarrassing messes.

6.   He has charged and charmed his way through personal tragedies with his will and his self-effacing sense of humor.

7.   She hooked up with Stanley Bond, an ex-con with a seventh-grade education who charmed his way into Brandeis through a government program for parolees.

8.   Then a femme fatale with a toothache shows up in the office and charms her way to a Demerol prescription.

9.   They try to stereotype him as the handsome young coach with buckets full of charisma who has charmed his way to the top.