tricked

Example Sentences

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My book, “Bamboozled by Jesus: How God Tricked Me into the Life of My Dreams,” comes out next year and is about the various tidbits of my life that got me here.

From New York Times • Jun. 5, 2020

Q. Tricked into a birthday dinner: “Robert” joined our staff as a senior manager three months ago.

From Slate • Aug. 13, 2019

Tricked into trying by people who knew they weren’t trying before – people who are now even more outraged than they were when Leicester weren’t trying last week.

From The Guardian • Mar. 1, 2017

Three years ago, he also made a deliciously fun featurette called "Tricked," about a blackmailed Dutch businessman, that tried some novel attempts at story creation.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2016

“You think me deluded. Tricked by my own walking fairytale. You think I came without a hope of winning— came to escape indignity by suicide!”

From "Grendel" by John Gardner