How to Use gullible in a Sentence

gullible

adjective

• They sell overpriced souvenirs to gullible tourists.
• I'm not gullible enough to believe something that outrageous.
• Those who get the fish placed on their backs are seen as gullible.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2024
• These things get passed around via emails from one gullible and naive nitwit to the next.
  — Tom Margenau, Dallas News, 13 Sep. 2020
• The racist, Russia and the gullible are the reason Trump was elected.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 5 Nov. 2017
• The more gullible of them believed Cece's snow job and her mean stories about me.
  — Lynne Curry, Alaska Dispatch News, 27 June 2017
• Thiel told him about this place where the lakes were alpine clean, the gorges breath-taking, and the trout hungry and gullible.
  — Meredith Erickson, Saveur, 29 Apr. 2019
• And then, like with a chain email, Eve shares the serpent's news with Adam, who turns out to be just as gullible.
  — The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 25 Jan. 2018
• And then, like with a chain email, Eve shares the serpent’s news with Adam, who turns out to be just as gullible.
  — Avi Selk, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2018
• How can there be so many gullible people who fall for his lies?
  — Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2022
• Swift’s big-screen self-display catches the youth of the Great Reset at their most gullible.
  — Armond White, National Review, 18 Oct. 2023
• The series portrays Paul as both an earnest guy with a good heart, as well as a naïve and gullible sad sack who is the butt of the joke.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 28 Dec. 2022
• Most cars do, but a few will use the still-available free lane to zoom ahead and scoot in in front of the polite (or gullible) drivers.
  — Washington Post, 28 June 2021
• The Cheek defense, which ended up not being any help to Mr. Cheek, protects the gullible.
  — Peter J Reilly, Forbes, 5 Apr. 2021
• All because Packers tackle David Bakhtiari did a great sell job and the refs were too gullible to fall for it — twice.
  — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 15 Oct. 2019
• As a result, the gullible hayseeds of Zaks’s River City just have to sort of fall in line behind him.
  — Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2022
• Not gullible, lost, or nihilists, my parents knew better than to share the acid with the children.
  — Rachel Kushner, Vogue, 16 Mar. 2021
• Over and over, the Kremlin sells this rug — and there are always gullible Westerners to buy it.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 21 Jan. 2022
• Those who believe them are gullible, and need to understand they’ve been told lies.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 3 Jan. 2023
• But here’s the thing: Millennials aren’t even much less gullible!
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 21 Nov. 2019
• This leaves the gullible as props: necessary, but flattened.
  — Hannah Zeavin, Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022
• All at once a seductress and a hag; a cunning shapeshifter and a gullible fool tricked into the service of the devil.
  — Kate Wheeling, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Oct. 2022
• The court has dismissed the idea of using naivete or being gullible as a defense, KPIX reports.
  — CBS News, 1 Sep. 2021
• This was a one-time joke designed to irk our most gullible and obsessive readers.
  — Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2022
• In a state founded on a gamble for gold, get-rich-quick gurus have thrived on gullible greenhorns.
  — Tom Noel, The Know, 24 Aug. 2019
• Alas, the pine-skulled kid is too cheerfully gullible to make the right discoveries.
  — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2022
• Trying to use a layout blind in the middle of a cut hayfield isn’t going to work, even on gullible early geese.
  — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 21 Aug. 2020
• That is, the world is a gullible circus, dragged down by poseurs who appropriate the false values of show business.
  — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022
• To joke about faking the moon landing while faking romance is a twisted attempt at keeping us gullible and unwary.
  — Armond White, National Review, 17 July 2024
• They’re portrayed as gullible blabbermouths who spill everything the minute anyone shows public kindness.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024