DUPE in a Sentence
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15 example sentences for DUPE, such as:
1. We know some sex offenders dupe the psychologists who assess them.
2. These despised themselves, as being the dupes of a wily fraud, a guileful snake in the grass.
3. Cease, then, to allow yourself to be duped by vain hopes, that even your own excellent heart refuses to believe in.
4. But the clerks were not the dupes of this deceit, and their lugubrious looks settled down into resigned countenances.
5. While the gullible Watson often was made a dupe by unscrupulous parties, Sherlock Holmes was far more difficult to fool.
2. These despised themselves, as being the dupes of a wily fraud, a guileful snake in the grass.
3. Cease, then, to allow yourself to be duped by vain hopes, that even your own excellent heart refuses to believe in.
4. But the clerks were not the dupes of this deceit, and their lugubrious looks settled down into resigned countenances.
5. While the gullible Watson often was made a dupe by unscrupulous parties, Sherlock Holmes was far more difficult to fool.
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Meanings and Examples of DUPE
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dupe
v. fool or hoax
n. a person who is tricked or swindled
Classic Sentence:
1 He held the blotter in his hand and contemplated it in stupid delight, almost ready to laugh at the hallucination of which he had been the dupe.
2 de Treville was the more the dupe, from having himself, as we have said, observed something fresh between the cardinal, the king, and the queen.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
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3 "Certainly, madame," said Porthos, winking to himself, as a gambler does who laughs at the dupe he is about to pluck.
4 Thus the poor woman was completely the dupe of the prisoner, whom, notwithstanding her hints, she persisted in watching all night.
5 A woman who could betray me for such a rival was not worth contending for; she deserved only scorn; less, however, than I, who had been her dupe.
6 Forth now, dupe, and face thankless perils; forth, cut down the Tyrrhenian lines; give the Latins peace in thy protection.
7 These despised themselves, as being the dupes of a wily fraud, a guileful snake in the grass.
8 But the clerks were not the dupes of this deceit, and their lugubrious looks settled down into resigned countenances.
9 Cease, then, to allow yourself to be duped by vain hopes, that even your own excellent heart refuses to believe in.
10 Thus the Genoese, subtle as he was, was duped by Edmond, in whose favor his mild demeanor, his nautical skill, and his admirable dissimulation, pleaded.
11 This letter gave Elizabeth some pain; but her spirits returned as she considered that Jane would no longer be duped, by the sister at least.
Example Sentence:
1 While the gullible Watson often was made a dupe by unscrupulous parties, Sherlock Holmes was far more difficult to fool.
2 We know some sex offenders dupe the psychologists who assess them.
3 When they realized that the Wizard didn't know how to get them back to Kansas, Dorothy and her companions were indignant that they'd been duped by a charlatan.
4 A ''super computer'' has duped humans into thinking it is a 13-year-old boy to become the first machine to pass the ''iconic'' Turing Test, experts have said.