How to Use swindle in a Sentence

swindle

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• In the play ‘Gas Light,’ the goal was to swindle the woman out of money.
  — Richard Galant, CNN, 4 Dec. 2022
• The embassy did not say how many fans had been swindled.
  — Mike Ives, New York Times, 21 June 2018
• Con artists swindle people for big names and big games, and events.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 6 June 2023
• In the last year alone, Americans were swindled out of $19.7 billion over the phone.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2020
• Now, the investors fear they've been swindled as part of alleged Ponzi scheme.
  — Alexandria Burris, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Feb. 2024
• Wood placed the blame for his mother’s destitution on the two men, the man at the legal aid group and the lawyer, for swindling her.
  — Andy Nguyen, La Cañada Valley Sun, 2 Nov. 2017
• She was accused on swindling a Clermont bank of $1,400, records show.
  — Stephen Hudak, OrlandoSentinel.com, 18 June 2018
• Lopez and Wu star in the true-crime drama as strippers who swindle wealthy Wall Street clientele.
  — Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2019
• Streep's got the showiest role as a widow who helps upend the scheme after she's swindled out of millions.
  — Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2019
• Apparently Smith, aware of the LG case against Shin, was wary that he, too, might get swindled.
  — James Vlahos, GQ, 18 Apr. 2018
• Then the numbers began to show up in cold-calling scams to swindle people.
  — Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023
• There is a thin line between giving fans hope and making them feel swindled.
  — Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati.com, 16 Jan. 2018
• Roth writes candidly about the choices that put her in the position to be swindled.
  — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 2 June 2023
• Bibiana Correa Perea, a Colombian lawyer who helped him swindle the drug lords, is serving about five years in prison.
  — Dallas News, 24 Oct. 2022
• She had not spoken with her ex-husband, a disbarred lawyer accused of swindling millions in a string of Ponzi schemes.
  — Aric Chokey, Sun-Sentinel.com, 24 Jan. 2018
• Hey, Tommy, join the club and get in line behind the hundreds of others who were swindled by league founder Charlie Ebersol.
  — Mike Bianchi, orlandosentinel.com, 28 June 2019
• Mother and daughter con-artists try to swindle a cigarette tycoon, but things go wrong when one falls in love.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
• According to producers, Big Mac was swindled out of $24 million in cash and prizes.
  — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2020
• Nasyrova fled to New York after she was accused of swindling the woman out of her money.
  — Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 1 Mar. 2018
• Helms pleaded guilty in 2014 to swindling his investors out of tens of thousands of dollars, with a plan that called for buying and reselling heavy equipment.
  — Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 20 June 2017
• They were almost swindled by a third party but found a factory in China to produce the product at scale.
  — Matthew Wilson, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2020
• Ochoa was one of 22 people Gonzales swindled out of money.
  — Otis R. Taylor Jr., SFChronicle.com, 10 Feb. 2020
• O’Loughlin also became convinced that Eaton Vance was swindling him.
  — Longreads, 6 Apr. 2023
• If two other boxers appeared in the ring, a ticket holder would have a viable argument that they had been swindled by a bait-and-switch.
  — Michael McCann, SI.com, 26 Aug. 2019
• This year, the fake heiress Anna Delvey, tried and convicted for swindling New York high society, sported a black turtleneck in court.
  — Ephrat Livni, Quartzy, 23 Nov. 2019
• Sorokin served about four years in prison after she was found guilty of swindling and attempting to swindle banks and hotels out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
  — NBC News, 10 Mar. 2022
• In a span of just three weeks in the summer of 2022, Alice Lin was swindled out of her life savings in an internet scam that began on a Chinese-language chat app.
  — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• The man was not swindled out of money, but his children were concerned about someone applying for loans under his name.
  — cleveland.com, 8 July 2019
• His underlying theory of the case is always the same: the United States has been ripped off, exploited, and swindled.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 1 June 2017
• With the disgraced cofounder of crypto exchange FTX facing up to 50 years in prison for swindling customers and investors out of billions, his lawyers are now playing the sympathy card.
  — Nick Rockel, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2024

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swindle

2 of 2 noun

• Ethel Reyes, 27, of Burnsville was charged with four counts of theft by swindle.
  — Christopher Magan, Twin Cities, 27 Sep. 2019
• The conman is exposed for his swindles, and gets his just desserts, or doesn't.
  — Time Staff, Time, 22 May 2017
• The hack itself is just the first part of a modern-day ransomware swindle.
  — Thomas Brewster, Forbes, 12 May 2021
• Eric Heflin, 65, of Rosemount, was charged with three felony counts of theft by swindle.
  — David Chanen, Star Tribune, 25 Nov. 2020
• The only means to keep the swindle going was to force the conversation back into the script.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 2 July 2022
• Durand was also charged with three counts of theft by swindle.
  — Paul Walsh, Star Tribune, 8 Sep. 2020
• In the latest batch, the I.R.S. tells us that many swindles begin with a threatening phone call from the agency.
  — John Schwartz, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2018
• To be sure, swindles occur all over the world, to every type of traveler.
  — Andrea Sachs, Twin Cities, 10 Aug. 2019
• He has also been convicted of theft by swindle and theft, both felonies.
  — Alex Chhith, Star Tribune, 12 Mar. 2021
• Most of all, there is Harold Hill’s charismatic swindle, winning over those Iowans — and us.
  — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 1 July 2022
• But like the deal that gave Lüderitz control of the territory in 1883, the entire industry was something of a swindle.
  — Joshua Hammer, The New York Review of Books, 19 Aug. 2021
• The colony known as German Southwest Africa (now the nation of Namibia) was born out of a monumental swindle.
  — Joshua Hammer, The New York Review of Books, 19 Aug. 2021
• The 12-part docudrama tells the true story of one of the biggest financial swindles of the 21st century.
  — Ben Croll, Variety, 2 Oct. 2023
• In Caldwell’s telling, the Civil Rights Act, which banned many forms of discrimination, was a swindle.
  — Jonathan Rauch, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2020
• Like many a Mamet play, the book explains grifts and swindles, and exposes rampant corruption.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• But what about the cruel swindle of the slave trade, and of imperial domination?
  — Lynn Steger Strong, The New Republic, 15 Sep. 2023
• The scale of the three-year swindle stunned investors, who hired lawyers in California to file long-shot lawsuits to recover losses.
  — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2021
• My own corollary is that more money has been lost reaching for tax advantages than all the stock swindles in history.
  — WSJ, 11 Apr. 2019
• One of the people allegedly involved in that swindle was arrested last year.
  — Pete Grathoff, kansascity, 28 Mar. 2018
• To avoid being the victim of a swindle by fraudsters, senior citizens should heed the following tips.
  — Erika Pesantes, Sun-Sentinel.com, 21 June 2018
• Telco fraudsters aren’t just bugging Americans with too-good-to-be-true deals and outright swindles.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 14 June 2019
• After his father’s swindle was exposed in 2017, James backed out of the nomination.
  — Ian Frisch, Town & Country, 27 Oct. 2022
• The scale of Shi’s three-year swindle stunned investors, who hired lawyers in California to file long-shot lawsuits to recover losses.
  — Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2021
• The internet is a global gathering of strangers and money, which means that a fraud, a trick, a swindle, a grift or a graft is obviously never far.
  — Farhad Manjoo, New York Times, 15 June 2018
• The podcast tells the story of his swindle and tracks the global search for Ruffo, which has been re-invigorated in recent months as the Marshals have followed new leads in the decades-old case.
  — Matthew Mosk, ABC News, 18 Aug. 2021
• Even victims of the swindles don't often pursue legal remedies.
  — Robert Reed, chicagotribune.com, 8 June 2017
• Note that these swindles are on the milder side of the criminal spectrum, with the perpetrators essentially trying to steal or squeeze money out of you.
  — Andrea Sachs, Twin Cities, 10 Aug. 2019
• Was the band a needed blast of power-chord candor, or, to borrow the title of the eventual Julien Temple mockumentary about them, a great rock ’n’ roll swindle?
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 30 May 2022
• John Ruffo engineered one of the most outlandish frauds in U.S. history -- a $350 million swindle.
  — Matthew Mosk, ABC News, 11 Aug. 2021
• But when the grifters in question are played by Robert Redford and Paul Newman, a labyrinthine swindle becomes an exercise in industrial-strength charm.
  — Jesse Hassenger, Men's Health, 12 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024