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Example sentences for "tricked"

Lexicographically close words:
trichloride; trichotomy; tricing; trick; tricke; trickeries; trickery; trickes; tricking; trickish
  1. She listened to it and to the very words he said, as she would have listened to a faun playing on his pipe, half bewitched by it, half tricked to laughter and to joy that was scarcely of this world.

  2. For either it was, as in the first instance, that the atmosphere of a strange country defeated him and tricked his sense of color, or his mind was bent on other things, but both days were fruitless of results.

  3. You tricked me, and I had a right to try to discover your secret!

  4. I paid for the information, and you tricked me.

  5. So the king was tricked into taking meat; and an evil dream came to him, by which he knew the clergy would succeed in destroying his kingdom.

  6. Many a time Mark's jealousy has been fiercely stirred, only to be tricked to sleep again.

  7. The fishes have tricked me worse than I have ever tricked all the other beasts.

  8. Sarvik seems to have belonged to the same family as the water-demon who was tricked by the Alevide in Canto 10.

  9. He had already tricked the Devil when the compact was signed, for instead of signing it with his own blood, he had signed it with cock's blood, and his short-sighted adversary had not noticed the difference.

  10. When Marubhuti had said this, Naravahanadatta and his courtiers laughed at him for having been tricked by a kuttani.

  11. When she heard this, she recognised me, and said with a smile, "Yes, country bumpkins are tricked in this way by city wits.

  12. And if his sister came and tricked me into marrying her by assuming my wife's form, what fault have I committed in this?

  13. Then he, seeing the ring and the sword, felt astonishment at having emerged from the lower regions, and despondency at having been tricked by the Asura maid.

  14. Remember how Imeson tricked you all at Bendigo, Wallis, with a hollow tent-pole that held ten gallons of brandy.

  15. The thought of the manner in which he had tricked the police tickled the black boy, and he emitted a yell of laughter that startled the Bush sleepers for a mile round, and filled the trees with movements and murmurs of complaint.

  16. Yes, sad as is the narration of it, they tricked the wily jungle lord.

  17. He would have tricked me neatly but for you," he said; "kept me imprisoned there while he secreted you elsewhere in the mazes of his temple.

  18. And thus I mused with me, When he had ceased to fulminate at state, "Another Count von Hackelnburg the fiend Hath tricked unto the chase!

  19. Say where is he that, tricked in this disguise, 250 First lured me on, then scared my dastard followers?

  20. Thou hast conspired against my life and honour, Hast tricked me foully; yet I hate thee not.

  21. Thou hast been lessoned and tricked up for this!

  22. That they'll believe themselves bound by an oath, Which we had tricked them into by a juggle?

  23. She wanted to shout and shriek her hatred into the evil face of the man who had tricked her.

  24. It was as if she had bartered her soul, and after payment, had been tricked out of her share of the bargain.

  25. They were talking in the patio of the Casa Maraquando, and Philip was tricked out in all the bravery of his uniform.

  26. Here, in the shadow of the wall, they found Dolores stained as was her lover, and fantastically tricked out in savage finery.

  27. He would have tricked her without turning an eyelash.

  28. As Carrie looked out upon the flying scenery she almost forgot that she had been tricked into this long journey against her will and that she was without the necessary apparel for traveling.

  29. O hateful treason that has tricked too long!

  30. Even now the citizen is tricked out of his vote by every possible legal and administrative technicality; so that more than one-third of our adult men are unenfranchised, together with the whole of the other sex.

  31. It's because you tricked them first, Brierley," returned Herbert in all seriousness and in all sincerity.

  32. I had it all now, just as plain as day; they had tricked the girl into a marriage; had maligned the young fellow in the same cowardly way, and had embittered them both for life.

  33. Some blamed Geissler; 'twas Geissler, that devil of a man, who had tricked them once more.

  34. Oline had tricked him nicely once before, saying one of the goats was gone, though all the goats were there as they should be; he had made a great fuss about it at the time, but to no purpose.

  35. Let there be no suggestion of error, of having been led astray, of an intelligent people having been tricked or misled.

  36. He had for a wife a great, solemn, clumsy creature, tricked out in the most ridiculous fashion, and outrageously overdressed.

  37. And unfortunately, the corruption lurking beneath the utmost polish tricked itself out in Voltairean wit.

  38. She had been tricked into the visit, too, or rather had tricked herself into it.

  39. A large party of Mormons, painted and tricked out as Indians, overtook the train of emigrant wagons some three hundred miles south of Salt Lake City, and made an attack.

  40. The more I thought of her, the more I wondered if I had not been tricked by my impressionability, by the strangeness of my adventure, by the glamour of the night awakening.

  41. I was constantly being tricked by my memory.

  42. Sometimes his work tricked him into forgetting for a few moments the Western front, but not often.

  43. But it is the humiliating truth; and perhaps it's just as well that thought did come or I might have been tricked by pity and remorse into giving him some rash assurance.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tricked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.