How to Use trick into in a Sentence

trick into

phrasal verb
  • Nix can be tricked into forcing throws to his first read, which can lead to some bad incompletions.
    Jon Hoefling, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Heath noted her mom had been tricked into giving money to the scammer, which prompted her to start screen-grabbing the texts.
    Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Users can be tricked into giving up the one-time codes that some MFA solutions depend upon.
    Atul Tulshibagwale, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Later as part of that same scam, the Troy man was tricked into handing over his credit union information.
    Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 8 Feb. 2024
  • So the door opens up for Damian when Bruce gets tricked into going to Nova Scotia, and then, lo and behold, these two criminals break in and crime is back.
    Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Dec. 2023
  • You get tricked into thinking that this type of behavior is expected.
    Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2023
  • No one, however, can be tricked into carrying out a mass killing or sawing off someone’s head.
    Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens, Foreign Affairs, 27 July 2015
  • In an extreme case, researchers showed how an AI could be tricked into identifying a plastic turtle as a rifle.
    David Hambling, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Lee had previously stated that he was tricked into doing drugs.
    Jeong Park, Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Others have been tricked into sending private photos to scammers.
    Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Rhona Rees’ protagonist, Jade, must fight for her autonomy and her life when she is tricked into getting pregnant after a one-night stand.
    Marta Balaga, Variety, 17 July 2023
  • As birth control is only available to men, her protagonist is tricked into getting pregnant after a one-night stand.
    Marta Balaga, Variety, 17 July 2023
  • According to the outlet, the actor maintained his innocence throughout the ordeal, and even filed legal action claiming that he was blackmailed and tricked into taking the drugs.
    Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Young men are being tricked into sending naked pictures to scammers pretending to be women — who then demand money.
    Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times, 15 May 2024
  • Oher’s attorney alleges in Monday’s filing that the former football player was tricked into signing the agreement.
    Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The actor claimed that he had been tricked into taking the drugs by the hostess who attempted to blackmail him, according to Reuters, who said that Lee's most recent questioning by police took place over the weekend and lasted 19 hours.
    Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Calvaries charge, cannons fire and Napoleon’s unlucky enemies are tricked into retreating onto sheer ice.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 25 Apr. 2023
  • In that scenario, your brain lacks reference points for accurate depth perception, and it can easily be tricked into perceiving the plane as motionless.
    Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 7 Apr. 2024
  • And last year, TurboTax agreed to a multi-state settlement, in which parent company Intuit agreed to pay $141 million to consumers who were tricked into paying for services that should have been free.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 15 May 2023
  • During the investigation, deputies learned that Alberts had allegedly been tricked into signing over her home in the wealthy Santa Barbara County neighborhood.
    Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 9 Mar. 2024
  • Its protagonist, Jade, is tricked into getting pregnant.
    Marta Balaga, Variety, 28 July 2023
  • According to Edwards, those groups are seen as being less likely to tell anyone if they’ve been tricked into downloading malware or becoming financial fraud victims.
    PCMAG, 4 Aug. 2023
  • In online gaming, players get tricked into giving credit card information for rewards that don’t exist.
    Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 6 Sep. 2023
  • For many scam victims, the big tax bills come after they are tricked into taking large distributions from their pretax retirement accounts and sending their savings to criminals, often overseas.
    Michael Laris, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Kim Kardashian just got tricked into using TikTok’s viral aging filter.
    Brian Anthony Hernandez, Peoplemag, 21 Dec. 2023
  • But as recently as 2022, lawmakers accused Zelle of allowing fraud to rise while often denying refunds to victims who frequently were tricked into sending transactions.
    Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Several states require law enforcement agencies to obtain warrants before deploying devices that mimic cell towers to obtain data from the devices tricked into connecting to it.
    Dhruv Mehrotra, WIRED, 4 May 2024
  • Even with huge amounts of data, artificial intelligence systems are easily tricked into making errors.
    Carl Benedikt Frey, Foreign Affairs, 19 June 2020
  • In Hong Kong, a finance worker at a multinational firm was tricked into paying $25 million to fraudsters using deepfake AI technology to pose as the company’s chief financial officer in a video conference call, according to local police.
    Kathleen Magramo, CNN, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Humanitarian aid is tricking into the Gaza Strip as Israel continues its military operations against Gaza.
    WSJ, 23 Oct. 2023

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