How To Use Trick In A Sentence

Three hours packed with a quick-fire century, a couple of bouncers, two-thirds of a hat-trick, a dropped catch, several bowled wickets and innumerable fours and sixers.
The engine on the X-51, called a supersonic-combustion ramjet, or "scramjet," pulls off a couple of especially tricky tasks. When Supersonic Is Just Too Slow
So much so that when he tried out a few of his character's screen tricks on his family, they put him firmly in his place. The Sun
But there was an element of delusion, mild trickery even, about this process.
Hesher (Director: Spencer Susser; Screenwriters: Spencer Susser and David Michod; Story by Brian Charles Frank) — A mysterious, anarchical trickster descends on the lives of a family struggling to deal with a painful loss. Sundance 2010 Competition Lineup Arrives, And Here Are Some Highlights » MTV Movies Blog

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Looking through the casement was the visage of the mariner, no longer stern, but moved with unutterable emotion, and tears, yes, tears trickling down his weather-beaten cheeks. Edward Barnett; a Neglected Child of South Carolina, Who Rose to Be a Peer of Great Britain,—and the Stormy Life of His Grandfather, Captain Williams or, The Earle's Victims: with an Account of the Terrible End of the Proud Earl De Montford, the Lamen
The geography was utterly alien to Patrick, although his unfamiliarity with the picture could have been attributed to the gaps.
Its heroes were beastly revellers or cruel and ferocious plunderers; its heroines unsexed hoidens, playing the ugliest tricks with their lovers, and repaying slights with bloody revenge, -- very dangerous and unsatisfactory companions for any other than the fire - eating Vikings and redhanded, unwashed Berserkers. The Conflict with Slavery and Others, Complete, Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism
Probably the trickiest green on the course. The Sun
It's an evolutionary trick to distract the pursuer, much as lizards lose their tails.
After pulling the ball over midwicket, Cairns showed he was no one-trick pony.
The only use he serves as a coach is that his nose just about crosses the touchline when he's sat in the dugout, so there's every chance he'll be able to trip up a tricky winger with his conk.
Chain car collisions on the Interstate, hysteria-tinged second by second updates from the weatherman on the local TV stations, a stunned, awestricken look from the locals that almost made one think that this was surely the first time they had ever seen this precipitation thing occurring. Election Central Sunday Roundup
I was watching the match in a pub without sound, and I had forgotten about it, so it was not until I got home that I realised that Langer had taken a hat trick, and that was why the West Indian fieldsmen all looked so pleased.
To be fair to the tourists they appear to be avoiding that trap as the days trickle by before the Kandy Test.
Tracking sports 'online cacophony is tricky enough when just focusing on league websites. NBC's Michaels making Olympic Games comeback
KAUFMAN: Patrick Bauer is a law professor at the University of Iowa. Tainted Foreclosures Concern State Judges
That car collided with the vehicle in which Waltrick was riding.
Fr. Stephen celebrated fifty years as a priest recently and the occasion was marked by the concelebration of Mass in St. Patricks Church, Clonbur on last Friday evening.
When the genie tricks the child into setting him free, the witch is in trouble.
A constant tinkerer, Paul spent hours developing recording tricks like over-dubbing and guitar effects like reverb.
Last year, Patricia McMahon, who attended St Patrick s Community College, was awarded the bursary.
However, the same writer made a poem on the tricks of countryfolk, which is by no means devoid of merit. The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
One of them turned and caught sight of my stricken face. Times, Sunday Times
Army Medical Research and Material Command (USAMRMC) at Ft. Detrick, which also manages activities unrelated to bio-warfare, such as supplying medical materials for use by the Army. Inside America's Biological Warfare Center
Her hat was tricked out with a yellow ribbon.
‘By ignoring ethical business practices, small businesses are missing a trick,’ he said.
Years afterward, the same nobleman's son who was saved from the bog was stricken with pneumonia.
Even though these involved rich Mexicans, it can happen at any time to extranjeros flaunting their wealth in a povert stricken town in a 3rd world country. San Miguel crime spree?
This capricious beast had been trained to caracole, and his owner had taken to impressing girls by making the beast execute this pretty trick whenever he saw one. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
However this game can be tricky at the best of times and lo an behold the favourite was crowded out at this stage being put back to near last.
The trick is that Juan graduated from a hard school and nothing fazes him.
Presented with a series of tricky problems, the Scud decided to play safe and run like the clappers, and just belt the ball for all he was worth.
I didn't answer her, just kept scrubbing the toilet clean while Colleen trickled Visine into her eyes.
Modder River, when all day long most of our men were quite unable to discover on which side of the stream the Boer entrenchments were, and in what they called clever trickery, but we called treachery, they are absolutely unsurpassable. With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back
Despite her measured tone, June is clearly enraged as well as grief stricken. The Sun
It's a real dilemma but please don't think of cheating or tricking your partner. The Sun
Life is just like an old time rail journey ... delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride. Gordon B. Hinckley
The opening door woke Roger, startled Patrick and gave the cat an unwonted and sudden attack of conscience. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
In order to prevent this happening, most recipes suggest ‘washing’ the sides of the pan with a wet pastry brush to brush down any undissolved sugar; easier still is to put a lid on the pan and let steam do the trick.
Suppose instead that he plays low at trick one. Times, Sunday Times
That was a trick you learned early, from the regimental bonzes who instructed noblemen's sons. Do you ever read writing?
Thomas Cowell of York County in 1680, and Patrick Napier twice phlebotomized 'Allen Jarves, deceased, in the cure of a cancer of his mouth.' Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699
You win less or lose more than you would by playing solo 8 and making the same number of tricks.
Dimitar Berbatov hat-trick moves Manchester United towards top speed Chelsea set to seal £21.5m deal for Benfica defender David Luiz
Sometimes, with mechs, a smile could transform the face into something even less human—the expression somehow incongruous on the synthetic lips, a quaint and unsettling party trick, like a dog propped at the dinner table with a fork and spoon. Crashed
He looked amazed and slightly stricken in the streetlight. AN OLDER WOMAN
Singers, musicians, dancers and storytellers are always appreciated on St. Patrick's Day.
He was named Time magazine's ‘Person of the Year,’ the avatar of the stricken city.
Using her pole as a staff, her temporarily lamed left hand useless at her side, she turned, beginning her hunt for the tricky sorceress and a place to camp once more.
What's stopping assistant coach Patrick Ewing from clobbering him in practice.
The main victim here is the “abstentionist” movement who is told that the main trickery of Chavez IS NOT the electoral registry, at least at presidential election level. Electoral registry irregularities and Perez Oramas on the uselessness of voting
We get a steady trickle of critical letters whose general gist is'Why did you write that, when you could have written this? Times, Sunday Times
The mangled wreckage of the stricken craft was such that rescue teams had not found him. The Sun
I've obviously become rather cynical over time, but then when it comes to card tricks, my first thought these days is to look for the con.
You can enjoy the Wild West Horse, Hound and Music Show, which will feature barrel racing, trick riding, comic horses, Appaloosa ponies and American Quarter Horses.
And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Dipodic Verse : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
Or the complete opposite - you table an awful dummy and partner makes an overtrick. Times, Sunday Times
Shakily I splashed some cold water onto my stricken face, wishing the cold liquid to act as a reality check, maybe even wake me up from this painfully real nightmare.
The pressure of school tests is forcing children stricken with serious infections into school to sit exams.
Marked by a distinctive black edging to the prints, Paul's film output was distinguished particularly by trick films and news films.
But it is a tricky lesson to teach when the banks and building societies are paying barely any interest to savers. Times, Sunday Times
When you're that kind of player, it must be so fun to play against no-marks who fall for every stepover, trick, flick and shimmy.
The trick is to ask what next and be at the crest of the wave. Times, Sunday Times
At length, perhaps, all are rewarded by the welcome sight of a tiny trickle in one corner, or perhaps the hole turns out a "duffer," and the weary, weary work must be commenced again in a fresh spot. Spinifex and Sand
His approach putt went six feet past, and the return trickled by the cup, giving Irwin a half and clinching the cup for the home side.
One reason TB-control programs are so important is that antitubercular drugs are such tricky instruments. Tuberculosis: A Deadly Return
They added anti-nuclear slogans as they passed the offices of Tokyo Electic Power Co, the operator of the stricken Fukushima plant. 'Occupy' Protests Around the World
There are others who believe they were betrayed by an organization of cheap confidence tricksters and want to tell the world about it.
Herber had three shots from the arc and 13 points and Gansey, Collins and Patrick Beilein chipped in 11. USATODAY.com
Probably because he has been driven into deicidal madness after Ares tricks Kratos into killing his own wife and daughter. The Cultural Gutter
About four teaspoons seems to do the trick, so you have be fairly liberal with a low-calorie dressing containing vinegar on your salad to get the benefit. Times, Sunday Times
Our nation's charter -- The Constitution of the United States -- to this day contains unstricken text that established the legal framework for slavery. Mike Stark: What You Might Not Know About the Constitution
Interconnected streets allow rush-hour overflow to trickle through neighborhoods, moving more traffic with less pavement.
His strong able-bodied cockswain did good service in cheerfully carrying his much-loved Commander, and they managed to return to the boat, and brought the two bereaved and sorrow-stricken ladies back to the “Pioneer.” A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries
True, Olbermann and Patrick would also make plenty of references to pop culture, but the references came across as charmingly haughty, as if the anchormen were showing us that they had interests that extended beyond the court or field. The Enthusiast
He used the old trick of attacking in order to defend himself.
And the switches did the trick as it turned a game in Palace's favour. The Sun
Another area where the electronic brain is clueless is when you want to take tricky shots using the flash.
He dropped down beside Patrick and started eating some of the dry sugar-coated goodies.
He knew nothing of the elaborate machinery of ingenious chicane, - such as feigning bankruptcy - fraudulent conveyances - making over to his wife - running property - and had never heard of such tricks of trade as sending out coffins to the graveyard, with negroes inside, carried off by sudden spells of imaginary disease, to be "resurrected," in due time, grinning, on the banks of the Brazos. The flush times of Alabama and Mississippi : a series of sketches,
We have relearnt the old tricks of theatrical intimacy. Times, Sunday Times
In the moralistic atmosphere of 1950s Hollywood, it was tricky to present Colette's account of the risqué demimondaine, and its glorification of the courtesans who relied on wealthy playboys and aristocrats to live in a state of opulence. France's Courtesan Queen Returns to the Silver Screen
My family's name has been besmirched by your victory over me, but your trickery can't hope to save you now.
Tea at a tiny inn sunk in a dell through which a sleepy lane trickled between high banks -- tea in the pocket garden under sweet-smelling limes, where stocks stood orderly and honeysuckle sprawled over the brick-nogging, brought back old days of happy fellowship, just to outshine their memory. Anthony Lyveden
Antipredator Behavior. Detection; Tricking the Predator; Defenses -- Individual, Social; Other Adaptations.
But radiation levels at the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant dropped on Friday, further buoying the Nikko. Asia Markets Higher; Tokyo Up 2.5%
The trick now is to remove the human element altogether and let artificial intelligence take care of the rest.
The trick was to desiccate the seeds, spores and the animals first (for 3 days over silica gel) before heating them slowly at a rate of 4 °C per minute. Survival at extreme temperatures: what is it good for?
Sandra helped us deal with the grief and anger we felt over Patrick's death.
He kept on taking too many tricks as I seemed to be able to undertrump him the entire game. Archive 2006-03-01
The queen was grief-stricken at his death.
Jackson and three companions plan to climb K2 without bottled oxygen, but it is the descent that is most tricky.
The result of this con trick on our young? The Sun
A tear trickled down the old man's cheek.
The airline admitted being involved in a dirty tricks campaign to win customers from their rival.
Wisdom appears in contradiction to itself, which is a trick life plays on philosophy of life.
He came within inches of a hat-trick and saving his side from defeat at the hands of the greatest collection of footballers ever assembled on one team.
The trick is to cage these animal natures in effective institutions: education, the law, government.
In short, these kind of hairbreadth missings of happiness look like the insults of Fortune, who may be considered as thus playing tricks with us, and wantonly diverting herself at our expense. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
It was very tricky business, as one wrong move would result in the loss of the fish.
They delivered emergency aid to the camps, not to stricken neighbourhoods, thereby ensuring the exponential growth of those camps. Times, Sunday Times
But this isn't computer trickery. Times, Sunday Times
He praised the sterling work of the Friends of St. Patrick's for their enormous contributions to the betterment of the life of patients and staff at the hospital.
Shrobing, begone: the influencers' latest styling trick is wearing your jumper as a scarf. Times, Sunday Times
Andy Beckwith scored a hat-trick for Wyke, while Mohammed Jahangir netted his first goal for Heaton.
Though he is sworn to secrecy, Larry, stricken with guilt over offending a friend, spills the beans.
The date for the appearance of "kvell" in the English language is tricky to pinpoint exactly. Latest Articles
Was it possible that the police suspected his involvement with Saunders and were trying to trick him into an admission of guilt?
Patrick had told her it was strong enough to withstand many weather conditions, including hurricanes and snowstorms.
And no, a filmmaker doesn't need to resort to cheap tricks and melodrama to tell the story.
The party chairman accused the opposition of dirty tricks in their election campaign.
But will swapping college to star in his own reality show do the trick? The Sun
To trick people into voting one way or another is a kind of theft. Times, Sunday Times
One day the boy we had looking after The Trickler fell in with a mob of sharps who told him we didn't know anything about training horses, and that what the horse really wanted was "a twicer" -- that is to say, a gallop twice round the course. Three Elephant Power and Other Stories
Congratulations to Patrick O'Reilly and Martin Davis who won gold medals in the relay.
Patrick nods, looking more interested than he ever used to when she used to witter on about Mesoamerica. THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
The only difference between audacity and recklessness is whether or not you win, and in this case a clever Union officer tricked Lee into making an audacious move that ultimately became a reckless endeavour. A Sorrowful Tale of High Velocity
This is one guy who has managed to get shedloads of money out of his followers by that old and trusted trick of telling them the world's going to end, so they won't need all those possessions and cash that'll bar them entry into heaven.
The trick to this method is avoiding the annoying, self-aggrandizing kind of emote, but still publicizing the informative, roleplay based emote. WoW.com
Players keep their tricks individually, and whoever takes the most card points loses.
Twinkling flashbulbs lit up Centre Court like fireworks in the night when Sampras kissed the trophy once again, his eyes glistening from the tears he had shed moments earlier after he whacked his final service winner to beat Patrick Rafter 6-7 Sampras wins historic Wimbledon title
Scores of terror-stricken farmers had abandoned their properties following attacks on several of their colleagues and the death of two.
Not a threadjack, but I can't believe Libby Trickett backed into the finals because the Chinese swimmer deeked! "The Excruciating Anguish of Elizabeth"...
His real purpose is to trick his way into your home to see what he can steal.
The trick, I have decided, is to try not to appear as though you can't believe your luck.
The trick is to target key objectives together. Times, Sunday Times
He's the evil genius behind the biggest political con-trick in history.
Makino's singing highlight may appear on "Magic Mountain," where her sweet, elfin melodies tell a tale of time on a mountain, stricken with loneliness.
My experience taught me that an owner should know every detail, from the cooking of the food up to its management, or he will be tricked by his workers.
Pain circled my head, blood trickled coppery in my mouth, and darkness called until the clock ticked into the next millisecond and my foot came down awkwardly on the dirt. 365 tomorrows » 2009 » November : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
If the year has not yet given you your fill of American politics, you might be tempted by this drama about presidential hopefuls using dirty tricks. Times, Sunday Times
Since I can't get you on any 'tricksy' questions about a certain wolf or female psy - how about a question about lifespan? Q & A
You have two defensive tricks, but a bare hand offensively. Times, Sunday Times
Basically, you'll be tugged along by a speedboat while standing atop a small surfboard-like platform, all the while performing aerial tricks and deft-defying maneuvers.
When asked about his pre-match routine, he said that the trick was to "have a smoke to calm your nerves, then toss back a strong drink to tone your muscles.
There was even a magician performing some wonderful tricks, unfortunately he had done a disappearing act by the time I turned up.
She is embarrassed by everything and accordingly cursed in her ownership of Theo, a tricky little shih-tzu.
The trick is to keep your body still and your arms relaxed.
Would such conjuring tricks give their writings more authority?
I was rather taken aback, because it raised some tricky theological and metaphysical questions. Times, Sunday Times
Slowly whisk while trickling in the sunflower oil. The Sun
that offer was a dirty trick
He would sneak around at night and set up jokes and tricks and then laugh at the staff members who got caught in them.
Many of the great moves are down to camera trickery, but I have picked up a few party tricks! The Sun
It is true that Herbert Butterfield remarked that the trick of writing history lay in ‘the art of abridgement’, but abridgement must be both sensible and defensible.
There is immoral, unethical and illegal prosperity on the one side and poverty-stricken people who are moral and ethical on the other.
The students use this technique today to master the most complex and tricky footwork.
The only way he was able to recognize him was when a conjuring trick was found in one of his trouser pockets. A Channel of Peace
As Mr. Adams dons trail clothes—"shirt with dozens of pockets, drip-dry pants that zip off into shorts, floppy hat with a cord pulled tight under the chin"—he realizes, too late, that he looks as though he is trick-or-treating as Ernest Hemingway. In a Lost City, Finding Yourself
In ancient times they used disguise and subterfuge, but these modern warriors used an equally disarming trick. Times, Sunday Times
The enthusiasts' tactics include presenting science as theatre, magic tricks and fantasy.
Patrick du Val suffered from bad health as a child and was educated mostly by his mother.
Had they at the _dogana_ discovered the trick and telephoned from the frontier? Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo
Actor Patrick Bergin returns to more familiar territory to play a menacing killer.
I lately had occasion to justify an action to a man," went on Clowes, "but, no, the scurvy fellow would put no faith in my words, insisting that the person I sought to clear was covinous and tricky, and wholly unworthy of trust. Janice Meredith
The poverty-stricken viceroyalty of Sardinia contributed little, Sicily somewhat more; most of the burden fell on Naples.
It is hard to judge a cliche so far away in time, but ‘racing lambs’ strikes one as a non-description, and with ‘fair their fling’ you wonder if anastrophe is just a trick he kept attempting, like dice. Spring « Unknowing
Carly Flynn, who managed to be "the nice one" without being insipid, which is a tricky balance to manage (not that I've ever tried). Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
Patrick felt a bullet burn a track through the right side of his chest.
He had thrust the wet moccasins down the neck of his shirt, and icy trickles ran down chest and belly, soaking his breechclout. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
West had managed to avoid the endplay and the defence could always come to five tricks. Times, Sunday Times
It is so lovely to view the sweet innocence of the ghouls and hobgoblins who visit our thresholds, calling out ‘trick or treat’, often accompanied by imaginative verse of their own making.
Show makers used green screen trickery to make the stars fly. The Sun
Yes, Donne's tricky and ingenious and he's enjoying his ingenuity.
Dallas auditionee Kimberly Carver there, after Simon called her uninteresting and "jazz TV" - and guest judge Neil Patrick ... WN.com - Articles related to Black stars don’t mean Hollywood is color-blind
The month before, in February, Amy had scored a hat trick in the ice hockey game against St. Francis and then, in the third period, broken her nose.
You sense that, like any obsessive, he must be tricky to handle at times.
There are some who can perform magic tricks while others cannot even shuffle a deck of cards.
Along the way there is a slow but steady trickling stream of septuagenarians, slipping their way down to the round stone tower by the beach.
Nowhere could you find a better route map of the troubles of Northern Ireland than in the articles of The Independent's David McKittrick.
The Friedman-Stricker article discusses a particular event in the liver that could trigger the hunger signal: a shift away from "oxidative metabolism" (the Krebs cycle for making energy out of anything) to direct production of glucose and ketone bodies (gluconeogenesis and ketogenesis - remember these from "diabetes is like starvation" above?). Sun Bloggers
Builders are hoping to have the work finished in time for St. Patrick's Day.
His cheeks were colorless and the sweat trickled from his brow.
Afterwards he talked to the young man's grief-stricken father.
The hoaxer, it seemed, had exploited the trickle-up nature of online information flow. February 6th, 2009
The second look, "Logan's look," also demonstrates a "recessionista" trick -- how to make a blouse out of the confidential and potentially damning documents your boss asked you to shred during the Wall Street melee. Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 7 Recap: Kind of Blue
“There was one circumstance which, though he did not appeal to it, had much weight with me in his favour, and that was the word jointure in the taylor’s letter, whereas my aunt never had been married, and this Mr. Fitzpatrick well knew. — The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
A very useful trick - and absurdly simple, too - is to notice when the defender looks away from his man.
I knew that the biotechnology industry had been pouring money into opposing the initiative with slick advertisements and tricky sound bites.
It has taken a practical, sensible approach to what is a tricky issue. Times, Sunday Times
The diocese feels a sense of gratitude for the gentle leadership which Bishop Laurence Ryan has given, first as coadjutor to Bishop Patrick Lennon and since late 1987 as bishop of the diocese.
Patrick has also come to look on Thailand as ‘home’ and is one of the few farangs who can sing the Thai National Anthem.
To show us that success is ‘hollow,’ we see hollow Patrick a roaring success at 27, a vice president at a major Wall Street firm with a six-figure salary.
Makers have used the trick called shrinkflation on 2,500 grocery products in five years. The Sun
The designers have a tricky job balancing the editorial page elements around the fixed advertising positions. Times, Sunday Times
This delicious trick for roasting parsnips is a firm favourite with my family and friends. Times, Sunday Times
When news of the gruesome homicide began to trickle out, the Washington Post newsroom was astir.
He strode on along the right-hand fork; the sweat stood in beads on his neck and trickled about his ankles.
The film may not be as elegant as the previous financial procedurals, and Costa-Gavras' brief forays into cinematic trickery threaten our suspension of disbelief.
The wife's questioning is swift and incisive, causing her husband first to reveal a trickle of information, then a cascade.
These holiday season signs seem eerily out of place in this grief-stricken city.
Whoever coined the term tricky-dicky must have sensed that the combination would hit hard. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 2
They delight in playing tricks on mortals, though they will cease to give trouble if politely requested to do so.
But it is not permitted to use serious tricks when the wrestling bout is between friends.
I washed up, brushed my teeth, pulled on my pajama bottoms despite the warm breeze trickling through my open window.
The 76-year-old from Southend Road, Wickford, was tricked into believing his roof was riddled with woodworm and in danger of collapsing without major repair work.
We docs know your little tricks and cunning ways. Times, Sunday Times
Secondly, parse as they might, they can't turn a scientific "trick" into guile, nor make a negative colouration stick to the phrase "hide the decline" when the CRU folks themselves have published papers on it. Archive 2009-11-01
The extras are limited to a brief filmography for director Michael Steinberg, Stiles, and Patrick Muldoon.

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