Sentence examples for a deceit of from inspiring English sources

Find out why it's a "deceit" of lapwings.

There are jackdaws in the graveyard and, not too far away because I saw them yesterday, a deceit of lapwings a 100 strong, flouncing with an energy that looked like joy.

"This was a deceit of such subtlety and cunning in its planning, and was a deceit from your point of view so successful in its execution that an outsider to this case might find the facts difficult to comprehend.

It is difficult to conceive of a deceit so degrading or a deceit so damaging to the victim on its discovery.

But in many ways the proposal is a deceit, for the net indebtedness of the government still rises.

It is a deceit reminiscent of the long-running lie that Hawk aircraft were not operating in East Timor.

Some explanations fitting the latter category also represent humans as the victim of the deceit of a malevolent deity or demon.

Archer and Hearn note an additional subplot concerning the Rosses' attempts to conceive a child and the deceit of Sharon, who has been using birth control pills to inhibit pregnancy without Glenn's knowledge.

Once, sports seemed like a refuge from the ritualized deceit of politics or business and now it feels like a race to see who can get away with what, longest.

However, Steenbergen deemed Ruby's overall deceit of Sam a "great revelation".

The poster for a theater piece, "The Deceits of Calvin," features a cartoon figure of Calvin holding two cats by their tails in his extended hands.