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
• 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
• 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
• And with the help of her mother and grandmother, Jane usually manages to keep her head while those around her are being blackmailed, kidnapped, buried in cement, hoodwinked by evil twins and double-crossed by drug lords.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2019
• The hoax wasn’t entirely unmasked until 1965, but until then many people — millions, perhaps — had been hoodwinked.
  — Bruce Weber, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2020
• The media narrative now is that the pharmaceuticals lobby spent big to hoodwink Congress to pass a bill Members didn’t understand.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 30 Aug 2024