fool

Example Sentences

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“We can delude ourselves for a while that this is not a real cost, but we’re only fooling ourselves at the end of the day,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal

He later apologized on X, claiming he had "badly used the expression... in a metaphorical way to mean 'fooling around'".

From BBC

He hoped it wasn’t when they were rolling around in the grass laughing and making fools of themselves.

From Literature

And the message-board-born concept of a “lolcow,” a gullible user who can be goaded into making a fool of themselves on a regular basis, definitely predated the music video.

From Salon

Indeed, in many cases teams may try to deliberately fool people.

From BBC