How to Use deceive in a Sentence

deceive

verb

• He was accused of deceiving the customer about the condition of the car.
• Her parents punished her for trying to deceive them.
• Remember that appearances can deceive—just because something looks good doesn't mean it is good.
• People who think they can eat whatever they want without harming their health are deceiving themselves.
• There were some Iraqis abroad willing to lie and deceive about the existence of weapons of mass destruction for the war to happen.
  — Rasha Al Aqeedi, Star Tribune, 2 July 2021
• Who could endure that raw-nerve sensitivity to the power of language to love, to deceive, to promise, to kill?
  — Washington Post, 13 July 2021
• Your eyes do not deceive you — The Deacon doesn't have a phone number, so the phone-averse will be right at home in this gorgeous, eclectic hotel.
  — Kaye Toal, Travel + Leisure, 6 July 2021
• And deceiving videos harm our democratic process, whether they are created by AI or actors on a soundstage.
  — Nathan E. Sanders, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2024
• Still, the sticker price could be deceiving, given the additional costs associated with owning such a home.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 18 Oct. 2024
• Maybe after Covid, scientists who are convinced of their own political neutrality will deceive themselves and the rest of us less often.
  — WSJ, 30 July 2021
• Other commentators have accused the people paid by Tenet of being too easily deceived and of failing to ask enough questions of the people paying them.
  — David Ingram, NBC News, 18 Sep. 2024
• In an attempt to discredit his opponent, Trump suggested back in August that Harris deceived voters about her race.
  — Giana Levy, refinery29.com, 27 Sep. 2024
• In the song, Eilish croons about the pain of being deceived.
  — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2020
• That said, looks are deceiving with the cushion in the max stack.
  — Sarah Kester, Travel + Leisure, 30 Jan. 2024
• In its verb form, to be humbugged is to be deceived or be the victim of a hoax.
  — Elizabeth Wolfe and Douglas S. Wood, CNN, 21 Dec. 2019
• The waves that crash and spray near the shoreline can be deceiving.
  — Erica Sloan, SELF, 2 July 2024
• But there are lies meant to impress, and there are lies meant to deceive.
  — Gary Franks, Hartford Courant, 5 July 2024
• You should not be deceived, this event on 18th of March is not elections.
  — Rob Arcand, Billboard, 19 Mar. 2018
• In the case of Titi’s corn empanadas, looks were not deceiving.
  — Kaitlyn Rosati, New York Daily News, 24 July 2024
• There are games when the final box score is a bit deceiving.
  — Don Markus, baltimoresun.com, 8 Jan. 2018
• Look closely at these tiny worlds and yep, your eyes don’t deceive you.
  — Rachael Lallensack, Smithsonian, 7 June 2019
• Pro days don't do anything but deceive scouts and waste time until the NFL draft.
  — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland.com, 22 Oct. 2017
• Then again, Marvel and the people working with the studio have been known to lie and deceive fans.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 19 July 2022
• But because of the in-store only offers, some of the deals are deceiving.
  — Nena Farrell, WIRED, 12 July 2023
• But looks can be deceiving: The blades travel at 180 mph.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2023
• The bot's goal is to deceive his fellow contestants and land in their endgame.
  — Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 15 Apr. 2024
• Become a Subscriber In the south of Italy, distances deceive.
  — Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2023
• The safety turns his hips to deceive his intentions, then covers the middle of the field.
  — cleveland, 25 Nov. 2020
• The Eagles are fifth in the league in rushing, but that number is deceiving.
  — Paul Domowitch, Philly.com, 1 Nov. 2017
• There was no trying to deceive you or anything like that.
  — Edward Lee, baltimoresun.com, 24 Aug. 2020

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024