How to Use delude in a Sentence

delude

verb

• Resist the urge to spin it, second-guess it or delude yourself out of it.
  — Washington Post, 30 May 2021
• That wouldn't be a problem, apart from that the film is itself as deluded as the clown at its center.
  — Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2019
• And don’t delude yourself that can only happen in some big East Coast city.
  — oregonlive, 20 Mar. 2020
• Just keep chugging away and trying to improve and be open and never delude yourself that this is great.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2021
• Here’s why the direction of price changes matters: In a year when crypto is up, traders can delude themselves.
  — William Baldwin, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021
• That’s why members of the Royal Order of 21sters delude themselves.
  — Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 21 Sep. 2019
• Patrick is all of us: deluding ourselves that our flaws are really our virtues.
  — Stephen Fishbach, PEOPLE.com, 12 Oct. 2017
• That statement, which very likely caused puzzlement for all but the most deluded of Mets fans, might just turn out to be correct.
  — New York Times, 12 Aug. 2019
• But those looking to this as an excuse for Hillary Clinton’s loss are deluding themselves.
  — Jonathan S. Tobin, National Review, 11 Oct. 2017
• Has he been deluded in the past, and is only now seeing hard reality?
  — Martin Peretz, WSJ, 12 Feb. 2019
• The fact that the war has not yet spread across the region should not delude world leaders into imagining that an expansion cannot happen.
  — Dalia Dassa Kaye, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2023
• Well, if candidates all deluded themselves like that, no one would ever get a gig.
  — Mattie Kahn, Glamour, 14 Sep. 2018
• In 2001, Scott and I were deluded enough to think the world was going to come to us. We were terrified and intimidated by the concept of booking a tour.
  — Louis Cheslaw, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Oct. 2019
• But even a simple reading of the chain of events leading up to the crisis shows how deluded that official narrative is.
  — Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 10 Feb. 2020
• For years, doubters and scoffers have derided as romantic or deluded the folks who fought for Detroit’s future.
  — John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press, 15 June 2018
• But because a non-White prime minister has been such a long time coming, many of us will delude ourselves into believing a change has come.
  — Kehinde Andrews, CNN, 8 Aug. 2022
• Scientists tend to think in averages, which can delude people into a false sense of safety.
  — Rosanna Xia, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2022
• My knee-jerk reaction was to call them sellouts, or deluded, as many progressives would.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
• The way the position has been devalued around the league in recent years, some deluded themselves into thinking Robinson might drift all the way to Dallas at No. 26.
  — David Moore, Dallas News, 28 Apr. 2023
• Each day is fragile and fleeting, but a few more days of its caliber and a fellow could be deluded into believing the world had achieved perfection.
  — Bulletin Board, Twin Cities, 4 Aug. 2019
• No, Miss Manners is not deluded enough to think that anyone waited for her permission on such a crucial manner.
  — Miss Manners | Judith Martin, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Aug. 2023
• And anyone who believes they are used for anything other than killing people are deluded or planning to kill someone.
  — Rochelle Riley, Detroit Free Press, 3 Oct. 2017
• Macy’s and Kohl’s shouldn’t delude themselves into thinking their would-be customers are simply sitting on the sidelines.
  — Sarah Halzack | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2019
• No one should delude oneself, however hard some try, into thinking that Mr. Putin’s intentions were merely to reannex Ukraine and go home to live in peace with the world.
  — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2022
• Steve Fraser thinks his fellow Americans grossly deluded on the subject, and has written his book to straighten us out.
  — Joseph Epstein, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2018
• But no one should be deluded: A vote for skinny repeal is a vote for an emaciated democracy.
  — E.j. Dionne Jr., Alaska Dispatch News, 26 July 2017
• At this point, for me, Ford and the Man in Black are different sides of the same megalomaniacal coin, deluded and increasingly tiresome to watch.
  — The Atlantic, 10 June 2018
• Amid the turbulence of unemployment, stop-and-search laws and bigotry facing black youths in 1980s Britain, two former friends square off in the ring in the hope — perhaps deluded — that a sports title might offer a way out.
  — Philip Brandes, latimes.com, 14 June 2019
• As a student of Stoic philosophy, Mr. Farnsworth doesn’t delude himself that this restoration will happen any time soon.
  — Martha Bayles, WSJ, 24 June 2022
• Anyone who thinks that aforementioned Gomez line isn’t about to become an instantly quotable is deluding themselves.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2024

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