TRICK in a Sentence
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150 example sentences for TRICK, such as:
1. We need a trick to get past the guards.
2. He's done me more than one dirty trick.
3. The trick is done simply by sleight of hand.
4. It's a contemptible trick to play on a friend!
5. Her partner tried to trick her out of her share.
2. He's done me more than one dirty trick.
3. The trick is done simply by sleight of hand.
4. It's a contemptible trick to play on a friend!
5. Her partner tried to trick her out of her share.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of TRICK
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trick
n. a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement
n. a prostitute's customer
Classic Sentence: (121 in 9 pages)
1 If fainting, or pretending to faint, would do the trick, then she would faint.
2 Scarlett had frequently used the same trick herself when discussing other girls with men, and it had never failed to convince foolish males of her sweetness and unselfishness.
3 And that Mrs. Wilkes knows nothing and that, between the two of you, you've done her a pretty trick.
4 You've tried every trick except that one and I don't think I could stand it.
5 It was that they bitterly resented owing the men's lives to such a man as Rhett and to such an embarrassing trick.
6 "He only did that as a dirty trick on us all, Scarlett, to embarrass us in front of the Yankees," Mrs. Merriwether continued.
7 I DID play a trick on you; I own up to it; but if you think I'm ashamed you're mistaken.
8 He's done me more than one dirty trick.
9 Uncle Miles's most ecstatic trick was to make figures not on paper but right on a new pine board, with the broadest softest pencil in the world.
10 Even to a returned mother, his whining and his trick of seven times snatching her silver brush were fatiguing.
11 Steelkilt calculated his time, and found that his next trick at the helm would come round at two o'clock, in the morning of the third day from that in which he had been betrayed.
12 Fuchs said he 'got on fine with the kids,' and liked the mother, though she played a sorry trick on him.
13 She saw at once that her husband had played this trick in order to get back to Black Hawk without her.
14 This trick did not suggest duplicity or secretiveness, but merely long habit, as with the horse.
15 One curious thing he had noticed, the very first day, in his profession of shoveler of guts; which was the sharp trick of the floor bosses whenever there chanced to come a "slunk" calf.
Example Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
1 After two election victories the government clearly has hopes of a hat trick.
2 We need a trick to get past the guards.
3 The trick is done simply by sleight of hand.
4 Wisdom appears in contradiction to itself, which is a trick life plays on philosophy of life.
5 A clever lawyer should be able to trick the prisoner into an admission of guilt.
6 Her partner tried to trick her out of her share.
7 I thought I saw a ghost, but perhaps it was only a trick of the light.
8 Don't put your trust in that man; he may trick you.
9 Pretending he doesn't remember is an old trick of his.
10 These children loved playing a special trick on their teacher.
11 It's a contemptible trick to play on a friend!
12 To win his audience; the speaker used every rhetorical trick in the book.
13 Some of the magic tricks called for audience participation.
14 He claimed he was the victim of a dirty tricks campaign.
15 The party chairman accused the opposition of dirty tricks in their election campaign.