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play tricks

VERB
  1. 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.
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