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.
  • This trickery is an idea that's making its way around the world.
    — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 25 Oct. 2017
  • And from that point, no amount of slicing or trickery could save her.
    — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 9 July 2022
  • The Longhorns used some trickery to help set up the winning field goal.
    — Robert Avery, Houston Chronicle, 7 Sep. 2019
  • For a bit of clever trickery, look no further than this genius idea.
    — Alyssa Longobucco, House Beautiful, 7 Nov. 2022
  • The fun bit of trickery worked as Hunt gained 3 yards and got the first down.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Then again, the show might not have much of an engine without its trickery.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Apr. 2023
  • There’s almost nothing in the way of metaphor or trickery.
    — Olivier Lafontant, Pitchfork, 25 Feb. 2026
  • There is, of course, a hint of trickery and self-deception in all this.
    — Alexei Navalny, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
  • The rooms are packed with high-tech trickery which creates alien-like landscapes.
    — Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • There were gasps, screams, cries of British deceit and trickery, and many tears.
    — Linda Hervieux, NBC News, 12 Sep. 2017
  • And a lot of it had this playfulness and visual trickery to it.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Sep. 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
  • But the cleverness of the hook, the trickery of the scammer still works.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
  • At a certain point, the trickery of food starts to become mundane.
    — Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 10 May 2021
  • And that's exactly the kind of trickery that Megan would have up her sleeve.
    — Hannah Orenstein, Seventeen, 24 Apr. 2017
  • But there is no science supporting this trickery in the case of the weight-loss drugs.
    — Stephen Moore, Boston Herald, 21 Mar. 2025
  • There’s only so much trickery until the men up front have to win at the point of attack.
    — Paul Dehner Jr., Cincinnati.com, 30 Oct. 2017
  • The winners will be those who focus on substance over trickery.
    — Jason Hennessey, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Now, there is a little bit of trickery being employed here.
    — Alan Bradley, Space.com, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Upon learning of his wife’s trickery, Bradlee urged her to fess up.
    — Amy Dewall Dadmun, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2018
  • Then came the trickery, as Yelich took off for second with Wiemer on third.
    — Todd Rosiak, Journal Sentinel, 14 May 2023
  • Yet that visual trickery isn’t the fakest aspect of the movie.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2020
  • The ping pong scenes all look natural, but there’s so much of Bob’s trickery.
    — Ben Flanagan | [email protected], al.com, 25 June 2019
  • Many still seem stunned by the effectiveness of the trickery.
    — Cezary Podkul, ProPublica, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Rayan gave Mykolenko a torrid time, beating him with trickery, pace and brute force.
    — Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2026
  • But there’s no trickery in those matches — the big ones are pay-per-view promoted events.
    — Jeremy Herb, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The Bulldogs used a little trickery to create a run in the third.
    — Michael Osipoff, Post-Tribune, 4 June 2017
  • 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

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