How to Use hoodwink in a Sentence

hoodwink

verb

• Don't let yourself be hoodwinked into buying things you don't need.
• Tom Sawyer famously hoodwinked the other boys into thinking there was nothing more enjoyable than whitewashing a fence.
• If that was the breakout, then the Dog Pound has been hoodwinked.
  — Ellis L. Williams, cleveland, 5 Dec. 2019
• For decades, we’ve been hoodwinked by the fetishization of coal, to the detriment of us all.
  — Jonathan Thompson, New Republic, 21 Sep. 2017
• When consultants wake up to the fact they’ve been hoodwinked, many don’t warn their friends to stay away.
  — Erin Blakemore, Longreads, 17 Oct. 2017
• And if you once again get hoodwinked, at least you will have been sufficiently warned.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2023
• Of course, we were hoodwinked by the deserter, McDaniels.
  — SI.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• Devotees of the Spider-Man comic books will be a step or two ahead of the rest of us in answering those questions, and more’s the pity, since being hoodwinked is part of the fun.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 2019
• Though their tool can’t stop current fake news in its tracks, the team hopes to at least learn more about how the disingenuous content can hoodwink people.
  — Lacy Schley, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2019
• At least one commenter wondered if Tomlinson had been hoodwinked by the higher-ups at CBS.
  — Eliza Brooke, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
• But my father thought I might be hoodwinked out of my inheritance.
  — Pat Kapowich, The Mercury News, 24 Feb. 2024
• The list of high-profile people Holmes managed to hoodwink is almost as eye-popping as her deceits.
  — Julia Belluz, Vox, 15 June 2018
• Couples who manage to hoodwink their families stay in the competition, while those who can't sell the lie are out.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 11 Feb. 2022
• Here’s how that would possibly be cleverly staged to hoodwink the baddies.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 12 June 2021
• The chair of the court is rarely in the news, though Habgood’s name featured last year when he was impersonated by an online prankster who briefly hoodwinked Carney.
  — David Goodman, Bloomberg.com, 16 Apr. 2018
• The question is: will a team move up, or could a savvy front office try to hoodwink Kings general manager Vlade Divac.
  — Peter Dawson, star-telegram, 6 June 2018
• Was Fox a co-conspirator in the effort to hoodwink the American people?
  — Nicholas Goldberg, Star Tribune, 5 May 2021
• Now some people who were hoodwinked and suffered damage to their vision are suing the e-commerce giant.
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2017
• All that thieves need to do is hoodwink Philadelphia’s Records Department and its gullible and often careless deed room.
  — Craig R. McCoy, Philly.com, 29 June 2018
• The images of Ukrainians as a bunch of Nazis hoodwinked by the West were readily presented on Russian television.
  — Gary Shteyngart, The Atlantic, 20 July 2023
• This part of the busy, teeming picture won’t be for everyone, certainly not for every preteen hoodwinked by the film’s G rating.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 18 June 2019
• Tales such as McIntosh’s — of being hoodwinked by a criminal only to face an uphill battle to be made whole — are on the rise, consumer and legal experts warn.
  — Nick Leiber, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2019
• Now Rodgers is considered by many to be a kook, someone who let himself get hoodwinked by junk science and conspiracies.
  — USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2024
• Just as the Terrapins were on the verge of forcing a third consecutive three-and-out deep in Michigan’s territory, they were hoodwinked by a fake punt that allowed the Wolverines to pick up a first down.
  — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 2 Nov. 2019
• There is a long list of agents who have hoodwinked their own clients—who have stolen, directly or indirectly, or cashed in on side deals, or ignored their own conflicts of interests.
  — Michael Rosenberg, SI.com, 7 Aug. 2019
• The busy father, who spent much of his spare time volunteering at church and in the immigrant community, found out he’d been hoodwinked after seeing Cooner on the news.
  — al, 16 Feb. 2020
• Have we, the audience, been hoodwinked by Pedro Pascal's dadly charms into rooting for a monster?
  — Kyle Orland & Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 13 Mar. 2023
• Perry even shared a screenshot of a text exchange with her mother, who was also hoodwinked into believing the photo was real.
  — New York Daily News, The Mercury News, 8 May 2024
• Polls after the election found voters recognized the taxing and spending numbers didn’t add up, and disliked Mr. Corbyn for trying to hoodwink them.
  — Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 24 Sep. 2020
• But when the craft’s command module burns up upon re-entry, the astronauts become hunted men—living proof of a scheme to hoodwink the American people.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 July 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024