Example sentences for: deception

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

  • The so-called diskette is a flat black square of rather tough plastic with a hole in the middle and an oblong slot on each of the flat sides; it is said to be 5¼ inches square, but that is a lie: as the only person who probably ever measured one of these things, I can tell you it is 5 3/16 inches square; that may seem irrelevant, but it is only the beginning of the Great Deception.

  • When the deception came out, Abrams sermonized that sneakiness in the defense of liberty is no vice, and many Republicans supported him in that.

  • The "deception" that Lamberth complained about was contained in one sentence of a 13-page affidavit filed by Magaziner in response to the suit.

  • In January 1988, when Jesse Jackson appeared on ABC's This Week , George Will asked him a series of questions designed to expose Jackson's deception and ignorance.

  • ' In some contexts the word can connote `secrecy and deception,' a diversion tactic , for example.


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