TRICK in a Sentence

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For TRICK, below is one of 150 sentences:
"He only did that as a dirty trick on us all, Scarlett, to embarrass us in front of the Yankees," Mrs. Merriwether continued.

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 Meanings and Examples of TRICK
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
trick
 n.  cunning or deceitful activity; attempt to get others to do something foolish
Classic Sentence: (121 in 9 pages)
1  If fainting, or pretending to faint, would do the trick, then she would faint.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  Scarlett had frequently used the same trick herself when discussing other girls with men, and it had never failed to convince foolish males of her sweetness and unselfishness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  And that Mrs. Wilkes knows nothing and that, between the two of you, you've done her a pretty trick.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
4  You've tried every trick except that one and I don't think I could stand it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
5  It was that they bitterly resented owing the men's lives to such a man as Rhett and to such an embarrassing trick.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
6  "He only did that as a dirty trick on us all, Scarlett, to embarrass us in front of the Yankees," Mrs. Merriwether continued.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
7  I DID play a trick on you; I own up to it; but if you think I'm ashamed you're mistaken.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 13
8  He's done me more than one dirty trick.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
9  Uncle Miles's most ecstatic trick was to make figures not on paper but right on a new pine board, with the broadest softest pencil in the world.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
10  Even to a returned mother, his whining and his trick of seven times snatching her silver brush were fatiguing.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
11  Steelkilt calculated his time, and found that his next trick at the helm would come round at two o'clock, in the morning of the third day from that in which he had been betrayed.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
12  Fuchs said he 'got on fine with the kids,' and liked the mother, though she played a sorry trick on him.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
13  She saw at once that her husband had played this trick in order to get back to Black Hawk without her.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XV
14  This trick did not suggest duplicity or secretiveness, but merely long habit, as with the horse.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: II
15  One curious thing he had noticed, the very first day, in his profession of shoveler of guts; which was the sharp trick of the floor bosses whenever there chanced to come a "slunk" calf.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
Example Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
1  After two election victories the government clearly has hopes of a hat trick.
2  We need a trick to get past the guards.
3  The trick is done simply by sleight of hand.
4  Wisdom appears in contradiction to itself, which is a trick life plays on philosophy of life.
5  A clever lawyer should be able to trick the prisoner into an admission of guilt.
6  Her partner tried to trick her out of her share.
7  I thought I saw a ghost, but perhaps it was only a trick of the light.
8  Don't put your trust in that man; he may trick you.
9  Pretending he doesn't remember is an old trick of his.
10  These children loved playing a special trick on their teacher.
11  It's a contemptible trick to play on a friend!
12  To win his audience; the speaker used every rhetorical trick in the book.
13  Some of the magic tricks called for audience participation.
14  He claimed he was the victim of a dirty tricks campaign.
15  The party chairman accused the opposition of dirty tricks in their election campaign.