play tricks
Example Sentences
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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
He said the loch could play tricks on people's eyes and mind.
From BBC • Aug. 25, 2023
She’s never sought to play tricks on her audience, she told me, correcting a common misconception about her work; Kuriki-Olivo approaches everything she devises from a place of sincerity.
From New York Times • Aug. 18, 2021
“Where’s the canoe? Can we find our way back to it, or is that going to play tricks with us as well?”
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
