play tricks
Example Sentences
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“Certainly altitude kind of can play tricks on your stuff,” Roberts said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Daphne du Maurier’s fiction revels in the mind’s ability to play tricks on itself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025
Then pollution, much from industry but some from farming itself, also started to play tricks on them over the past few decades.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2024
The relationship between dark and light starts to play tricks on you in this part of Sweden, where the sun goes down around 3 p.m. in December.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2023
There is no end and no be-ginning; there is only one’s own mind, which can begin to play tricks.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
