Example sentences for: trick

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

  • Horses were of no use in swamp or swale, but hay poles did the trick.

  • Next year, the Art Institute will try for an impressionist hat trick, as they add a Renoir show to the successes of last year's Monet extravaganza and this year's subtler and more demanding Degas.

  • The budget surplus, which is providing Clinton with excellent cover for his new social programs (Gigot; David Gergen, The McLaughlin Group ), was declared illusory and temporary by This Week 's two conservatives, who failed to note these seemingly obvious truths last week when the surplus was Issue 1. George Will stated without dissent that the surplus is an accounting trick: If the balance sheet were to include the trust funds (Social Security, etc.), the real deficit would stand at about $140 billion.

  • Rather than call this plan a "solution," as Lott did, the AP reported that DeLay had conceived it as " 'a little trick' that would put Clinton at risk of being blamed for a shutdown."

  • All you need to know is that negative campaigning is the oldest trick in the book.


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