Example sentences for: deceived

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

  • After a couple of months, having been deceived into thinking they've just slept through the winter, they can be brought inside and made to behave as if spring has arrived.

  • In La Stampa of Turin, Gabriele Romagnoli wrote from New York that Clinton's destiny is in the hands of the "strange, wonderful, deceived American people, who continue to form a dam against the torrent of mud poured out by Kenneth Starr onto the president they elected, onto the TV sets in their homes, onto the screens of their children's computers."

  • Lest one might be deceived into taking the preceding to be a pleasantry, even as late as 1909 (at seventy-four), Skeat's contempt for those who knew less than he was undiminished:

  • blent: deceived, blinded

  • This isn't Tuskegee . In Tuskegee, doctors sought no public review, had no clearly beneficial aim, and deceived patients into getting no treatment.


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