How to Use deception in a Sentence

deception

noun

• His many deceptions did not become known until years after he died.
• She accuses the company of willful deception in its advertising.
• The officer was unable to get in touch with the contractor, who was charged with theft by deception.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 27 Apr. 2022
• The Huskies will be showing their new offense, which will focus on a small number of plays with deception around them.
  — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 20 Apr. 2022
• The suspect was cited for deception to obtain dangerous drugs.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 27 Apr. 2022
• Kayla had been in jail since January on one felony count of theft by deception and two misdemeanor counts of welfare fraud.
  — Diane Herbst, PEOPLE.com, 10 May 2022
• Due to his arrogance and deception, Brahma would henceforth have few devotees.
  — Robert J. Stephens, The Conversation, 27 Sep. 2024
• Angry at his son's deception, Marquez shoots at Antonio, but Aram saves him.
  — Laura Sirikul, EW.com, 23 Apr. 2022
• The tangled web of alleged deception has shed light on the fraught relationship between the city and Recology.
  — Annie Vainshtein, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Apr. 2022
• Pritchard devised the deception after reading a book of photography tricks by Walter Wick.
  — Susana Martinez-Conde, Scientific American, 26 Apr. 2022
• In this climate of fake news, the topic of deception is to usurp the integrity of elections by stating irregularities in the voting process.
  — Rayna Reid, Essence, 13 Apr. 2022
• But given the ease with which the Germans could anticipate that move, a strategic military deception was necessary.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Apr. 2022
• Sadly, humans are very easily deceived and quick to praise a physical object or ritual for their good fortune, which only sinks those claws of deception deeper.
  — Jonah Bayer, SPIN, 14 Apr. 2022
• Online deception is of course nothing new in politics — witness the U.S. election of 2016.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2022
• Just goes to show there's no end to the deception that goes on in the BB house!
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 1 July 2022
• And this was a season in need of that kind of self-deception.
  — New York Times, 21 June 2019
• That all comes from a funky arm slot that adds to his deception. ...
  — Pete Grathoff, kansascity, 5 June 2018
• Can this be anything but the tip of the deception iceberg?
  — Kris Frieswick, WSJ, 13 May 2022
• The key to the story is, in fact, the theft and deception of art, of the making of culture itself.
  — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
• He was hurt by the feeling of deception, a close friend of his told the Statesman.
  — Brian Davis, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2021
• More deception and movement makes the pitch tougher to hit.
  — Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes, 10 June 2021
• Skilled players who are well coached with a hint of deception in the play calls will win a lot of games.
  — John Maffei, sandiegouniontribune.com, 6 Oct. 2017
• For Sheehan, though, the farce is the deception itself.
  — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
• The darkness and light were all there, the veil of illusion and deception ripped aside.
  — Sarah Rense, Esquire, 14 Oct. 2016
• Tsai wowed the judges with his crazy magic and hand deception skills.
  — Sabrina Finkelstein, Billboard, 12 July 2017
• Here, the deception hinges on a corpse, with thousands of lives hanging in the balance.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 11 May 2022
• Wood, a lefty, is all about deception with his mix of sinkers, curves and changeups.
  — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Feb. 2021
• The Eagles rely on deception to move the ball, but there is speed on this team, too.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2021
• Clarke’s business was deception, making the Nazis believe things that weren’t true.
  — Robert Hutton, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Sep. 2024
• Podcasters, prominent public figures, and leading political figures have breathed oxygen into once fringe ideas of collusion and deception.
  — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 12 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024