Example sentences for: trickery

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

  • There is trickery or confusion in GS's argument.

  • In the course of displays of special-effects trickery you’ll be attacked by the shark from Jaws, meet up with a three-story-tall King Kong, and be subjected to all the earthquakes, floods, and fires you ever saw in a disaster movie.

  • The word matachines can translate to mean “clowning” or “trickery,” but can also mean “puppet player,” “jester,” and “buffoon.”

  • Its very name became a verb in English: “to shanghai” meant to abduct by trickery or force.

  • Moreover, the magazine 1) dishonestly implies that Caltech, rather than the ranking formulas, have changed with the headline "Caltech Comes Out on Top"; 2) employs linguistic trickery to downplay how much the methodological flip-flop helped Caltech; and 3) fails to mention that Caltech probably declined in quality this year if the U.S.


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