How to Use dupe in a Sentence

dupe

1 of 2 noun

• The new ship is more or less a dupe of the Seabourn Venture, which launched in 2022.
  — Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 14 Aug. 2023
• This Amazon dupe serves the same purpose, and the price for the two-piece set can’t be beat.
  — Alesandra Dubin, Travel + Leisure, 22 Jan. 2024
• Beige wasn’t her style, but a dupe of a blue Prada City Calf tote called out to her.
  — New York Times, 24 May 2022
• The ones that are the $19 dupe for Lululemon's $98 ones.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 14 Apr. 2021
• This is not always the case with dupe perfumes, though.
  — Jane Daly, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 July 2023
• Ahead, find the best Dyson Airwrap dupes that are pretty close to the real thing.
  — Samantha Olson, seventeen.com, 1 June 2023
• In most cases, a dupe of a product rarely holds a match to the original.
  — Nerisha Penrose, ELLE, 21 June 2023
• Keep scrolling to shop some of our favorite dupes below.
  — Hannah Oh, Seventeen, 18 July 2023
• Some reviewers have even gone so far as to call them the perfect Spanx dupe.
  — Nikita Charuza, Peoplemag, 3 Nov. 2022
• The players are cynical and dismissive; the press corps smells a dupe and a fool.
  — John Avlon, CNN, 22 July 2021
• Take a look below to shop dupes of Kim's Insta shoot look.
  — Briannah Rivera, Seventeen, 9 Mar. 2023
• She's obsessed with makeup and always on the search for a good drugstore dupe.
  — Amber Joglar, Popular Mechanics, 22 Dec. 2022
• Below, find the 10 best dupes for the Charlotte Tilbury Flawless Finish primer, all for less than $30.
  — Tatjana Freund and Nerisha Penrose, ELLE, 28 Mar. 2023
• Like many dupes going viral on the internet as of late, is this one too good to be true?
  — Danielle Blundell, Women's Health, 22 June 2023
• Ahead, find the best dupes for Kendall Jenner's chill Coachella outfit.
  — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 15 Apr. 2023
• This shimmery and blendable cream-to-powder stick is a great dupe for Pinkgasm and only $4.
  — Jim Asker, Billboard, 10 Aug. 2021
• Here are just some of the best Lululemon dupes that can be found on Amazon.
  — Josie Howell | [e-mail], al, 24 Feb. 2023
• Shark's sleek, high-tech hairdryer (that's known as a Dyson dupe) is marked down for a limited time, too.
  — Sarah Madaus, SELF, 11 July 2023
• Lewis has seen interest grow in a TikTok Shop dupe that costs $11.
  — Mattie Kahn, Vogue, 6 Mar. 2024
• Jeans don’t have to stay jeans; a bundle of black tights, on camera, can become a runway dupe.
  — Sarah Spellings, Vogue, 22 Mar. 2023
• Case in point: this very convincing dupe that's a dead ringer for Teigen's half–moon design and a total steal at just $38.
  — Jennifer Chan, PEOPLE.com, 20 Feb. 2022
• Minga London has a fierce dupe that would look amazing styled with this Fawn tote bag and Alex and Ani necklace.
  — Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 12 Jan. 2022
• How about a fizzy rosé dupe or a line of nonalcoholic beers that can go toe-to-toe with the best that craft breweries have to offer?
  — Alaina Chou, Bon Appétit, 24 Jan. 2023
• In Mira, Lemoine sees a kindred spirit, but also a dupe.
  — B. D. McClay, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
• This feature is based on the user’s search habits but, this makes dupes even easier to find than before.
  — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 11 Dec. 2023
• This is another dupe found on TikTok, and it’s even called the Cloud Sectional!
  — Camryn Rabideau, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2021
• Destination dupes are cities with the same vibe as a popular area but at a fraction of the cost and with fewer crowds.
  — Ronny Maye, Essence, 4 Jan. 2024
• The soon-to-be-bride then aired her frustration at the time her mother spent trying to look into the ring and find a less expensive dupe.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 14 Mar. 2024
• So give your home a cozy-yet-affordable update by shopping the best CB2 chair dupes on Amazon, ahead.
  — Jacqueline Saguin, goodhousekeeping.com, 29 Apr. 2023
• Could online bargain hunters have found the next affordable dupe?
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2024

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dupe

2 of 2 verb

• They duped her out of $300.
• Throw on a chunky cardigan, a cami, and retro trousers to dupe this look.
  — Kelsey Stiegman, seventeen.com, 9 May 2019
• Now, take a look below at our finds to dupe Florence's red carpet look.
  — Briannah Rivera, Seventeen, 9 Mar. 2023
• The fraudster either was a Chase insider or had gone to great lengths to dupe his victim.
  — David Lazarus, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2021
• The squalane in this oil is formulated to dupe the natural squalene in your skin.
  — Lauren Caruso, CNN Underscored, 28 Oct. 2020
• Scammers are always finding new ways to dupe people out of money.
  — Julie Jargon, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2023
• Peak tax season comes with an increase in scammers hoping to dupe people out of their money.
  — Nancy Chen, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2023
• Brees’ game didn’t dupe the Bucs defense nearly as effectively.
  — Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2021
• The world of hair loss treatments is vast and confusing, with a healthy dose of snake oil salesmen that are going to try to dupe you into wasting your money on stuff that doesn’t work.
  — Garrett Munce, Men's Health, 22 Apr. 2022
• The Chiefs opened the contest with an effective game plan and execution, the day’s first touchdown a trick play to dupe the Cowboys’ most threatening defender.
  — Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 22 Nov. 2021
• Rosaria is a new strong 4 star introduced not that long ago, meaning many people have not had the chance to dupe her multiple times yet to unlock more pieces of her constellation.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2021
• Robert Klemko said his father would dupe his in-home caretakers to escape, adding that his father didn’t understand why he was being confined.
  — Washington Post, 18 June 2021
• The pop-up messages even led one couple in Maine to lose $1.1 million after the scammers managed to dupe them into wiring the funds to an account at the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase.
  — PCMAG, 20 Oct. 2022
• Funnily enough, this isn’t the first fake cricket tournament organised to dupe people.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 11 July 2022
• The mother of two-year-old toddler Freddie Linsky managed to dupe the art world by selling her son’s work – including a splash of ketchup on a high chair – on Saatchi Online (admittedly, for a paltry £20).
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 14 Mar. 2011
• On several occasions, the thief had even tried to dupe other translators into writing up a reader’s report on a book, which scouts and agents use to help determine whether a book is worth their time.
  — Lila Shapiro, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2022
• Koretz resolved to monetize his newfound fame by taking a lesson from the Panama fiasco: The way to make really big money was to dupe investors on phony land deals.
  — Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 5 Mar. 2021
• The Kremlin could easily have staged a less conspicuous death that would be more likely to dupe outsiders into wondering whether Prigozhin had died of natural causes.
  — Brian Klaas, The Atlantic, 23 Aug. 2023
• Criminals are milking victims of their life savings through a kind of cyber fraud called CryptoRom, in which scammers dupe their victims into installing dubious apps on their smartphones that leave them open to theft.
  — Jonathan Vanian, Fortune, 17 Mar. 2022
• Since October, election officials in nine states have received phony emails that would dupe users into handing over their login credentials.
  — Jack Gillum, Bloomberg.com, 29 Mar. 2022
• But the findings could help quell recent concerns over the virus’s ability to dupe the immune system into amnesia, leaving people vulnerable to repeat bouts of disease.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2020
• The intent, the media reports said, was to dupe Hamas fighters into thinking that an invasion had begun and to respond in ways that would expose far greater numbers of them to what was being called a devastatingly lethal Israeli attack.
  — New York Times, 14 May 2021
• Ayik has not yet been arrested, but officials said Tuesday that undercover officers had been able to dupe him into becoming an early adopter of the app and promoting it to others in his network.
  — Washington Post, 8 June 2021
• In their complaint, officials laid out several methods used by Mr. Latchford to dupe Mr. Clark into believing the artifacts were legitimate.
  — Tom Mashberg, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2022
• Many believe that pro-French African leaders dupe the West with promises of security, stability, and democracy only to extend term limits and use government treasuries for personal enrichment.
  — Tom Collins, Quartz, 6 June 2022
• Beyond the issue of counterfeit vaccines, the use of the Internet to dupe consumers into turning over personal medical and financial information has been a key feature of many fraudsters’ online activities.
  — Jay Kennedy, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2021
• Conspiracy theories are, by definition, irrefutable. Lack of evidence of a conspiracy, or positive proof against its existence, is taken by believers as evidence of the craftiness of those behind the plot, and their ability to dupe the public.
  — Jovan Byford, CNN, 4 Aug. 2020
• Exercising, but in moderation Exercise can further simulate our ancestors’ stressful environments, some experts say, which can dupe your genes into extending your span of health.
  — Matt Fuchs, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Oct. 2021
• While Adams claimed that British leaders plotted to ruin colonial prosperity and freedom, Loyalists depicted Boston’s radicals as conspiring to dupe common people into wreaking anarchy.
  — Alan Taylor, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2022
• Typically, these involve sending out emails that attempt to dupe unwary recipients into disclosing personal details.
  — Bernard Marr, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024