Example sentences for: trumped

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

  • But the condescension of these ill-wishers is trumped by the contempt of those who say Gates is too coldblooded to put his family first.

  • Fortunately, commerce has trumped personality.

  • But, they add, after Ken Starr made a private presentation to her of secret grand jury evidence, she decided the privileges are trumped by the particulars of the Lewinsky case.

  • While right-wing and left-wing groups have helped trumpet the two women's causes, nobody has shown convincingly that either side trumped up the accusations.

  • As two soldiers mounted on a motorcycle and cab push inexorably into the frigid landscape--with flour substituting for snow--there's an uneasy mix of the trompe l'oeil and the trumped up.


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