How to Use bait and switch in a Sentence

bait and switch

noun

• The couture show involved a clever bait and switch: guests were funnelled through the back door of the Palais Garnier and, unbeknownst to them, onto the main opera-house stage.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
• And the best way to beat a bait and switch is a dine and dash!
  — Jen Doll, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2022
• This classic bait and switch marked the rise of both Google and Facebook.
  — Joseph Turow, The Conversation, 28 Apr. 2021
• Throw your real present in this gag gift box for a good bait and switch.
  — Kevin Cortez, Popular Mechanics, 12 Oct. 2022
• If that means doing more to prevent the old bait and switch, so be it.
  — Solomon Jones, Philly.com, 16 May 2018
• Rather than the bait and switch, better to work on something new, folks.
  — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 4 Jan. 2023
• What seems to have occurred here is that the app maker pulled off a bait and switch.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 31 Mar. 2021
• The bait and switch happened in Act II as the witches arrived.
  — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2022
• This novel is a bait and switch in the best possible sense.
  — Laura Miller, Slate Magazine, 13 June 2017
• Turns out that whole subplot was a giant bait and switch.
  — Elizabeth Angell, Town & Country, 11 Dec. 2017
• But the problem here is that the president is playing a game of bait and switch.
  — Fox News, 24 May 2018
• This bait and switch creates a massive end run around the Fourth Amendment.
  — Elizabeth Goitein, New Republic, 26 Oct. 2017
• And therein lies the bait and switch that is the hallmark of the animal rights industry.
  — Chris Dorsey, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2021
• Many of these concerns are driven by a sense that the past decade was an elaborate bait and switch.
  — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 6 June 2023
• But in order to develop that point, Strong began with a bait and switch.
  — Amanda Wicks, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2022
• But the notion of a miserable midlife turns out to be another bait and switch.
  — Lydia Kiesling, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2023
• But to assure the public that the new taxes weren’t some sort of a bait and switch, lawmakers made the new fund’s purpose clear.
  — Kyle Whitmire, al, 6 Apr. 2023
• The practice, known as 'drip pricing,' is said to be misleading to consumers and akin to bait and switch tactics.
  — Taylor Mims, Billboard, 13 June 2018
• Some justices might see that as a bait and switch forcing them to address a much bigger question.
  — Dan Berman, CNN, 30 Nov. 2021
• There's always the option of this being another bait and switch.
  — Matt Miller, Esquire, 19 Dec. 2017
• The opening minutes of Bones and All are a diabolical bait and switch.
  — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 23 Nov. 2022
• In Netflix’s Partner Track, the rom-com is a bait and switch for a story less about finding your love and more about finding yourself.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Sep. 2022
• This bait and switch has left me with little motivation to identify and set goals in my new job.
  — Roxane Gay, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2022
• Or a gag gift box that uses cursed artwork to conceal its actual contents with a bait and switch.
  — Kevin Cortez, Popular Mechanics, 12 Oct. 2022
• Highlights: Talk about bait and switch — this game was 0-0 after the first quarter, but had to be one of the most exciting games ever witnessed by the final gun.
  — Kirk Kenney, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 Dec. 2017
• From late summer to the start of autumn, actively feeding common carp can also be made to fall for a classic bait and switch.
  — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 4 June 2019
• To allow the government to perform such a bait and switch would be an outrageous form of entrapment that the Due Process Clause should prevent.
  — Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine, 5 Sep. 2017
• One important note: Never bait and switch your content.
  — Stephanie Burns, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2022
• Learning about astrology can sometimes feel like a bait and switch.
  — Madison Feller, ELLE, 6 Sep. 2023
• Devaluing loyalty programs feels like a bait and switch to customers.
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 9 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 13 Sep 2024