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How to use swindle in a sentence

17 example sentences · verb, noun

Swindle means to defraud. Example: “The two men swindled the company out of $160,000.”

Examples of swindle by meaning

verbTo defraud.

  • The two men swindled the company out of $160,000.
  • It describes the period in which an embezzler has stolen a man's money but the victim does not yet realize he's been swindled.2015 December 3, Tracy Alloway, “There's Been a Bezzle-Fueled Boom in Bonds”, in Markets, Bloomberg News, retrieved 16 Aug 2021

verbTo obtain (money or property) by fraudulent or deceitful methods.

  • She swindled more than £200 out of me.

nounAn instance of swindling.

  • There were men there who had committed merciless robberies, cruel murders, heartless swindles, abominable depravities.1914, Julian Hawthorne, chapter 16, in The Subterranean Brotherhood
  • It wasn't even an open slavery like an ordinary tied house; it was a swindle at the expense of everybody the manager was supposed to serve.1935, G. K. Chesterton, The Scandal of Father Brown

More sentences with swindle

  • They used cunning fetches to swindle money out of the gullible.From the entry fetch
  • That greedy con artist would swindle you at any cost.From the entry con artist
  • She was dubbed a "modern day snake oil salesman" after she managed to swindle over thousands of internet customers.From the entry snake oil salesman
  • The substance of your crooked plottery being nothing but forgery and swindle of my Civil Rites.1940, Case and Comment, volumes 46-50, page 27. From the entry plottery
  • "We'll 'salt' 'Paradise' and work her off for a hummer." "But that will be swindling," protested Clark.1900 May, M. Quad, “How Major Wharton Let Go”, in The National Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, volume 12, number 2, page 85. From the entry hummer
  • Meet Ghana's Yahoo boys, online fraudsters who swindle Americans out of millions of dollars by luring them into romance scams.2024 September 25, CBS Evening News, spoken by Debora Patta, New York, via CBS. From the entry hustle kingdom
  • In English slang, to ramp was to swindle or rob.[2002, William Safire, w:The New York Times Magazine. From the entry ramp
  • A species of swindle that has been perpetrated times without number all over this country is the old gold-brick game.1906, Harry Houdini, The Right Way to Do Wrong, page 72. From the entry gold-brick
  • Madoff is the season's archvillain, accused of having run a Ponzi scheme so vast that future generations may well describe similar swindles as Madoff schemes.2009 January 6, Clyde Haberman, “We Know About the Mess. Please, Clean Up Carefully.”, in New York Times. From the entry archvillain
  • These aren’t the first megadeals cut by politicians that do not pass the smell test, but nobody has been swindled like the Yankee Stadium community.2009 January 25, Harvey Araton, “Tear Down Stadium and Build Up the Bronx”, in New York Times. From the entry megadeal
  • It is widely recognized that you are far more likely to be swindled by a waiter at a restaurant than an evil cybercrook.2001, Duncan Grey, The Internet in School. From the entry cybercrook
  • "And the extent of your achievement has been to contrive a vulgar imposture—in the guise of an ingenious inventor to swindle society by a sham automaton that doesn't even work."1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards…. From the entry imposture

Meaning of swindle

  1. verb To defraud.
  2. verb To obtain (money or property) by fraudulent or deceitful methods.
  3. verb For a player in a losing position to play a clever move that provokes an error from the opponent, thus achieving a win or a draw.

Full definition of swindle

Questions about swindle in a sentence

How do you use swindle in a sentence?
Swindle is used as a verb and noun. For example: “The two men swindled the company out of $160,000.”
What is a short sentence with swindle?
“She swindled more than £200 out of me.”
What does swindle mean?
Swindle means to defraud.

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