Sentences with trick
trick
T t - We are playing a trick on a man who keeps bothering me.
- Stephen is going to be pretty upset when he finds out how you tricked him. [VERB noun]
- SYNONYMY NOTE: trick is the common word for an action or device in which ingenuity and cunning are used to outwit others and implies deception either for fraudulent purposes or as a prank; , ruse applies to that which is contrived as a blind for one's real intentions or for the truth [her apparent illness was merely a ruse]; a stratagem is a more or less complicated ruse, by means of which one attempts to outwit or entrap an enemy or antagonist [military stratagems]; maneuver, specifically applicable to military tactics, in general use suggests the shrewd manipulation of persons or situations to suit one's purposes [a political maneuver]; artifice stresses inventiveness or ingenuity in the contrivance of an expedient, trick, etc. [artifices employed to circumvent the tax laws]; wile implies the use of allurements or beguilement to ensnare [womanly wiles]
- He shows me card tricks.
- Tiffany revamped her sitting room with simple decorative tricks.
- The boys are up to their tricks again
- A trick spider
- A trick of the trade
- The light played a trick on my eyes
- The trick of making good pastry
- To learn the tricks of the trade
- A trick of tugging at the ear
- A trick knee
- It must have been some visual trick caused by the flickering candlelight.
- She likes to play tricks on her friends.
- The tricks of the trade.
- You seem to have mastered the trick of making others laugh.
- He taught his dog some amazing tricks.
- Card tricks.
- I relieved the pilot after he had completed his trick at the wheel.
- A pretty little trick.
- trick shooting.
- A trick chair.
- A trick shoulder.
- To trick someone out of an inheritance.
- Another turn of the pliers should do the trick.