How to Use gullible in a Sentence

gullible

adjective
  • They sell overpriced souvenirs to gullible tourists.
  • I'm not gullible enough to believe something that outrageous.
  • Those who get the fish placed on their backs are seen as gullible.
    — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2024
  • How can there be so many gullible people who fall for his lies?
    — Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2022
  • These things get passed around via emails from one gullible and naive nitwit to the next.
    — Tom Margenau, Dallas News, 13 Sep. 2020
  • The few adult characters in the film are gullible or bumbling.
    — Linnea Wicklund, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2026
  • The more gullible of them believed Cece's snow job and her mean stories about me.
    — Lynne Curry, Alaska Dispatch News, 27 June 2017
  • Those who believe them are gullible, and need to understand they’ve been told lies.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 3 Jan. 2023
  • This was a one-time joke designed to irk our most gullible and obsessive readers.
    — Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2022
  • More like a memo from the dictator, telling gullible loyalists what to think.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Thiel told him about this place where the lakes were alpine clean, the gorges breath-taking, and the trout hungry and gullible.
    — Meredith Erickson, Saveur, 29 Apr. 2019
  • In a state founded on a gamble for gold, get-rich-quick gurus have thrived on gullible greenhorns.
    — Tom Noel, The Know, 24 Aug. 2019
  • Not gullible, lost, or nihilists, my parents knew better than to share the acid with the children.
    — Rachel Kushner, Vogue, 16 Mar. 2021
  • No Muscovite would be so gullible as to assume the government was on their side.
    — Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The racist, Russia and the gullible are the reason Trump was elected.
    — Alaska Dispatch News, 5 Nov. 2017
  • Fraudsters do their work at scale, spamming scores of potential victims in search of a few gullible ones.
    — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2022
  • The gullible public are just conduits to get to those institutions’ cash.
    — Richard Ruelas, azcentral, 21 Mar. 2020
  • And then, like with a chain email, Eve shares the serpent's news with Adam, who turns out to be just as gullible.
    — The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 25 Jan. 2018
  • And then, like with a chain email, Eve shares the serpent’s news with Adam, who turns out to be just as gullible.
    — Avi Selk, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2018
  • Most cars do, but a few will use the still-available free lane to zoom ahead and scoot in in front of the polite (or gullible) drivers.
    — Washington Post, 28 June 2021
  • Swift’s big-screen self-display catches the youth of the Great Reset at their most gullible.
    — Armond White, National Review, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Mark Kelly Even Supreme Court justices are known to be gullible.
    — Ted Frank, WSJ, 5 July 2023
  • The series portrays Paul as both an earnest guy with a good heart, as well as a naïve and gullible sad sack who is the butt of the joke.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 28 Dec. 2022
  • All at once a seductress and a hag; a cunning shapeshifter and a gullible fool tricked into the service of the devil.
    — Kate Wheeling, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Oct. 2022
  • That is, the world is a gullible circus, dragged down by poseurs who appropriate the false values of show business.
    — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Over and over, the Kremlin sells this rug — and there are always gullible Westerners to buy it.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Harper already has a gullible fool on the inside, ready to give a list of Pierpoint’s positions away.
    — Nina Li Coomes, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2024
  • But the gullible, easily-led and unintelligent — and the media — all fall for the lie.
    — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 2 Nov. 2024
  • All because Packers tackle David Bakhtiari did a great sell job and the refs were too gullible to fall for it — twice.
    — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 15 Oct. 2019
  • As a result, the gullible hayseeds of Zaks’s River City just have to sort of fall in line behind him.
    — Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2022

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