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deceive somebody
We tricked the teacher into thinking that class would be cancelled next week
How To Use play tricks In A Sentence
- The pair were inseparable from birth and often used to play tricks on their various sets of foster parents who could never tell them apart.
- Are you sure? Memory can play tricks on you.
- The brain is a phenomenal organ, but it can play tricks on us, and clinicians sometimes come across rare and exceedingly strange brain conditions. Times, Sunday Times
- But memory can also play tricks with perspective, because you are distanced from some lines of argument and embroiled still in others. The Past is Before Us - feminism in action since the 1960s
- Are you sure? Memory can play tricks on you.
- Memory is a treacherous place, a bog that can drag you down into its gassy depths and play tricks on you.
- He can wheedle people so easily - play tricks with their minds, torture them emotionally, until they give in to despair.
- But memory can also play tricks with perspective, because you are distanced from some lines of argument and embroiled still in others. The Past is Before Us - feminism in action since the 1960s
- A sine function has amplitude, phase, period and shift, and you can play tricks with these.
- They're the mischievous little imps that play tricks on us all the time.