How to Use trickery in a Sentence

trickery

noun

• He resorted to trickery to get what he wanted.
• Delia resorted to trickery—even loading up the fishing equipment—to induce her dog into the car for his vet appointment.
• And there will be a chance for the Bears to join the 2019 highlight reel of trickery.
  — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 4 Dec. 2019
• The trickery set up a 45-yard field goal by Cody Parkey for the game’s first points.
  — Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2019
• The Longhorns used some trickery to help set up the winning field goal.
  — Robert Avery, Houston Chronicle, 7 Sep. 2019
• Key moment: The Rebels’ trickery stalled near the goal line.
  — Nick Alvarez | [e-mail], al, 11 Nov. 2022
• But Far Cry 5 is a game full of more trickery than most.
  — Julie Muncy, WIRED, 9 Apr. 2018
• The Rams extended the lead on a fourth-and-goal play from the one-yard line with some trickery.
  — Scott Sepich, oregonlive, 21 Oct. 2022
• Now that the trickery is over, the focus is on football.
  — David Brandt, Star Tribune, 2 Mar. 2021
• That’s not where the door trickery ends in the Model X. The front doors can open and close themselves, too.
  — Jordan Golson, Ars Technica, 21 Jan. 2018
• The Eagles used some trickery, facing fourth-and-goal on the 1 with less than a minute to play.
  — Kyle Hightower, Houston Chronicle, 4 Feb. 2018
• Then came the trickery, as Yelich took off for second with Wiemer on third.
  — Todd Rosiak, Journal Sentinel, 14 May 2023
• The cops in one New Jersey city are trying to catch the thieves with some trickery of their own.
  — David Porter, The Seattle Times, 12 Dec. 2018
• And from that point, no amount of slicing or trickery could save her.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 9 July 2022
• Around the time the Packers beat the Bears, the Cardinals made their move against the Seahawks with some trickery.
  — David Brandt, USA TODAY, 7 Jan. 2024
• And a lot of it had this playfulness and visual trickery to it.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Sep. 2023
• Yet that visual trickery isn’t the fakest aspect of the movie.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2020
• It’s been a chic game of trickery—and Louis Vuitton is the latest label to get on board.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 20 Nov. 2023
• Dupri’s yacht pulls up and the girls bound aboard, claiming they are owed a favor for his trickery.
  — Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 22 Dec. 2021
• Then again, the show might not have much of an engine without its trickery.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Apr. 2023
• There’s no guile, no trickery, no sublime piece of skill.
  — SI.com, 7 Oct. 2019
• The ping pong scenes all look natural, but there’s so much of Bob’s trickery.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al.com, 25 June 2019
• Many still seem stunned by the effectiveness of the trickery.
  — Cezary Podkul, ProPublica, 13 Sep. 2022
• At a certain point, the trickery of food starts to become mundane.
  — Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 10 May 2021
• That opened the door for pranksters, who in the case of the Eli Lilly trickery trolled both drug companies and Twitter.
  — Steve Mollman, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2022
• It’s the kicking game that’s seen some of the bigger momentum swings in terms of trickery.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 22 Nov. 2022
• For a bit of clever trickery, look no further than this genius idea.
  — Alyssa Longobucco, House Beautiful, 7 Nov. 2022
• Yes, the passing game could be better but the running game has enough punch and trickery to drive the defense nuts.
  — Charles Hollis, al, 26 Sep. 2019
• Each member of the group is crowned king or queen for a day and tasked with selecting a topic for that day’s stories, whether it be doomed love affairs, trickery or acts of generosity.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 July 2024
• The blessed trickery of Hirsch's tome is its reverse-engineering, which enables you to conjure the essence of your favorite cocktails but in a replicable frozen fashion.
  — Scott Hocker, theweek, 27 June 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024