How to Use cheater in a Sentence

cheater

noun
  • And then — and there is no nice way to put this — there are the cheaters.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 19 Oct. 2024
  • It’s not lost on me that the two cheaters in the group are the ones who get killed.
    — Sophie Hanson, StyleCaster, 31 Oct. 2024
  • What if the person flipping the coin is a cheater?
    — Zachary Del Rosario, The Conversation, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Twitter hits us with some new cheater content.
    — Amber Harding Outkick, FOXNews.com, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Then, from there, a big question is how cheaters can be wrangled.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
  • When a cheater gets banned, they’ll be removed from the leaderboards.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 28 Apr. 2022
  • The song discusses the ups and downs of being with a cheater.
    — Shelby Stewart, Chron, 1 June 2021
  • For Black people in this country, white dudes are the cheater.
    — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Also, those chopsticks are cheaters.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 May 2025
  • The move is also intended to send a message to would-be cheaters.
    — PCMAG, 22 Feb. 2023
  • That shouldn’t happen to anyone, even unkempt cheaters.
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 27 May 2026
  • Developers are still struggling to kick these types of cheaters out of games.
    — Tom Warren, The Verge, 3 Aug. 2023
  • And who defends America, not trade cheaters all over the globe.
    — Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 2025
  • After all, who doesn't want a cheater button now and again and just let the motor do all the work for you?
    — New Atlas, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Liberals painted him as a ruthless cheater, which doesn’t faze him at all.
    — Dahleen Glanton, chicagotribune.com, 23 Sep. 2020
  • The answer to this week’s contest crossword is something a cheater does.
    — WSJ, 1 Dec. 2023
  • All in fun, though; cheaters are discovered or reveal themselves in the end.
    — Kristin Shaw, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
  • Even on that cheater’s night in Houston, he was never overwhelmed like this.
    — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2023
  • As with the rise of any lucrative industry, cheaters have emerged.
    — C. Brandon Ogbunu, WIRED, 11 Aug. 2023
  • If the issues in high school sports are ever going to be fixed, then cheaters need to be exposed.
    — Eric Sondheimer columnist follow, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Then the hunt is on (though cheaters can use Google Maps, which now lists the location).
    — Chloé Braithwaite, New York Times, 25 July 2024
  • Once your game has crashed, the cheater is free to run up to your character in game, shoot them in the head and take all your gear.
    — Mike Stubbs, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
  • Predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain.
    — ABC News, 28 July 2024
  • The focus should be on the millions of dollars that subway fare cheaters get away with every day.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 24 Jan. 2024
  • After a short, awkward visit, the cheater pleaded his case to my hubby.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Denver Post, 19 June 2025
  • The problem for a csA cheater is that this same sticky protein serves as a badge of loyalty.
    — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 19 July 2010
  • Other Mumsnet users tried to describe the mindset of a cheater.
    — Brian Anthony Hernandez, People.com, 26 Apr. 2025
  • This kind of thinking can allow students who sometimes cheat to not think of themselves as cheaters.
    — Austin Sarat, Fortune, 23 June 2026
  • This kind of thinking can allow students who sometimes cheat to not think of themselves as cheaters.
    — Austin Sarat, The Conversation, 17 June 2026
  • Officers are used to catching cheaters in the carpool lane, Horner said.
    — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2023

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