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
  • Don't be tricked into putting down money upfront via a digital wallet, like CashApp, to book a room.
    Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 2 Apr. 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
  • Morgaine, a witch who gets tricked into a pagan ritual with her half-brother, the future King Arthur, and gets pregnant.
    Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • Great Britain’s Keiran Reilly took silver after packing trick after trick into his second run, hauling himself above Jeanjean with the final act of the competition.
    George Ramsay, CNN, 31 July 2024
  • 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
  • Effectively, the developers of these apps have consented to or have been tricked into using an SDK that enrolls the device of any user running the app in a residential proxy network.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 29 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
  • In his book, Payne writes that several of the sponsors whom Ueberroth cajoled to spend heavily were irked when the Games wound up with a profit, saying they felt tricked into writing bigger checks to promote Ueberroth’s image.
    Les Carpenter, Washington Post, 21 July 2024
  • 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
  • Zuma’s supporters have neither been tricked into loyalty nor entranced by his charisma.
    David Adler, Foreign Affairs, 7 Aug. 2016
  • 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
  • Unfortunately, every year hundreds of thousands of people in the United States either ignore that golden rule or are tricked into answering.
    Heather Kelly, Washington Post, 17 June 2024

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