How to Use trickery in a Sentence

trickery

noun
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  • He resorted to trickery to get what he wanted.
  • Delia resorted to trickery—even loading up the fishing equipment—to induce her dog into the car for his vet appointment.
  • And there will be a chance for the Bears to join the 2019 highlight reel of trickery.
    — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 4 Dec. 2019
  • The trickery set up a 45-yard field goal by Cody Parkey for the game’s first points.
    — Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2019
  • The Longhorns used some trickery to help set up the winning field goal.
    — Robert Avery, Houston Chronicle, 7 Sep. 2019
  • Key moment: The Rebels’ trickery stalled near the goal line.
    — Nick Alvarez | [email protected], al, 11 Nov. 2022
  • But Far Cry 5 is a game full of more trickery than most.
    — Julie Muncy, WIRED, 9 Apr. 2018
  • The Rams extended the lead on a fourth-and-goal play from the one-yard line with some trickery.
    — Scott Sepich, oregonlive, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Now that the trickery is over, the focus is on football.
    — David Brandt, Star Tribune, 2 Mar. 2021
  • That’s not where the door trickery ends in the Model X. The front doors can open and close themselves, too.
    — Jordan Golson, Ars Technica, 21 Jan. 2018
  • The Eagles used some trickery, facing fourth-and-goal on the 1 with less than a minute to play.
    — Kyle Hightower, Houston Chronicle, 4 Feb. 2018
  • Then came the trickery, as Yelich took off for second with Wiemer on third.
    — Todd Rosiak, Journal Sentinel, 14 May 2023
  • The cops in one New Jersey city are trying to catch the thieves with some trickery of their own.
    — David Porter, The Seattle Times, 12 Dec. 2018
  • And from that point, no amount of slicing or trickery could save her.
    — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 9 July 2022
  • Around the time the Packers beat the Bears, the Cardinals made their move against the Seahawks with some trickery.
    — David Brandt, USA TODAY, 7 Jan. 2024
  • And a lot of it had this playfulness and visual trickery to it.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Yet that visual trickery isn’t the fakest aspect of the movie.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2020
  • It’s been a chic game of trickery—and Louis Vuitton is the latest label to get on board.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Dupri’s yacht pulls up and the girls bound aboard, claiming they are owed a favor for his trickery.
    — Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 22 Dec. 2021
  • Then again, the show might not have much of an engine without its trickery.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Apr. 2023
  • There’s no guile, no trickery, no sublime piece of skill.
    — SI.com, 7 Oct. 2019
  • The ping pong scenes all look natural, but there’s so much of Bob’s trickery.
    — Ben Flanagan | [email protected], al.com, 25 June 2019
  • Many still seem stunned by the effectiveness of the trickery.
    — Cezary Podkul, ProPublica, 13 Sep. 2022
  • At a certain point, the trickery of food starts to become mundane.
    — Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 10 May 2021
  • That opened the door for pranksters, who in the case of the Eli Lilly trickery trolled both drug companies and Twitter.
    — Steve Mollman, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2022
  • It’s the kicking game that’s seen some of the bigger momentum swings in terms of trickery.
    — Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 22 Nov. 2022
  • For a bit of clever trickery, look no further than this genius idea.
    — Alyssa Longobucco, House Beautiful, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Yes, the passing game could be better but the running game has enough punch and trickery to drive the defense nuts.
    — Charles Hollis, al, 26 Sep. 2019
  • Each member of the group is crowned king or queen for a day and tasked with selecting a topic for that day’s stories, whether it be doomed love affairs, trickery or acts of generosity.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 July 2024
  • The blessed trickery of Hirsch's tome is its reverse-engineering, which enables you to conjure the essence of your favorite cocktails but in a replicable frozen fashion.
    — Scott Hocker, theweek, 27 June 2024

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