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
Against a new ball and on a pitch starting to play tricks Bethell played as late as a broken clock.
From BBC • Dec. 7, 2024
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
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
Play all day, stay up as late as we wanted, roam the woods and fields, tease and play tricks on the living.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
