deceive
Example Sentences
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The Ghost Army had one goal: Deceive Hitler’s forces and their allies.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 3, 2022
Deceive the guardian—well, she’d done that; but she had no idea what she would find inside the tent.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
Deceive others, and you prosper well enough; allow yourself to be deceived, and you're pitched into as if you were the greatest rogue unhung.
From M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur." by Whyte-Melville, G.J.
It was her stern necessity: all things Are of one pattern made; bird, beast and flower, Song, picture, form, space, thought and character Deceive us, seeming to be many things, And are but one.
From Poems Household Edition by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
"Deceive us not—haply thou hast more evil tidings—Venice—" "Is a fearful state."
From The Bravo by Cooper, James Fenimore
Vocabulary lists containing deceive
May the 4th Be With You: Star Wars Words
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, "A Date That Will Live In Infamy" (1941)
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