Example sentences for: con

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

  • And celebrity sponsorship is a behavioral modification technique rivaling Santa Claus: Kids shape up quick if you can con them into thinking that Michael Jordan or Sly Stallone might show up at any minute.

  • Synonyms for truth telling are formal and dull: candor , honesty , veridity . Those for conveying falsehoods are colorful and ebullient: equivocation , mythomania , casuistry , quackery , buncombe , cajolery , duplicity , perjury , bamboozlement , pettifoggery , sugarcoating , a crock , a con job , twaddle .

  • Dear Con,

  • The seconds crawl, and, as they do, you realize that the immobile, obsequious Eddie is infinitely more terrifying than any of the slobbering, muscle-flexing, knife-wielding psychopaths of Con Air . A Jerry Bruckheimer blockbuster can't waste a beat simulating a real human exchange.

  • Con Safos carried monthly examinations developed by Antonio Gómez, “PhD, Barriologist Emeritus.”


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