Sentence examples for a small deception from inspiring English sources

East returned the spade deuce, a small deception aimed at making the declarer believe that this suit would divide four-three.

This book is built on a many small deceptions, all of them subtly knowing about the rivalries among teenage girls and their adult counterparts.

Operation Copperhead was a small military deception operation run by the British during the Second World War.

Obviously, the idea had occurred to the White House before the congressional leadership suggested it, but the small deception was O.K. Washington is very deeply an organization city, and it needs these rituals; a wartime address to a joint session of Congress is the ultimate unscheduled ceremony, and you could feel the comforting effect of the expectation of it.

The girls have a friendship built on small deceptions, a dynamic that repeats itself with their dates.

Why such a low deception rate?

But it is a risky approach, he added: Even small deceptions can erode the trust between athlete and coach.

One lesson, Dr. Thompson said, is that coaches can eke better performances out of athletes by means of small deceptions.

What was more upsetting were the ease with which small deceptions fed the larger tragedies.

He focuses maniacally on success, but the brilliance of Bar Rescue is how beautifully – and truthfully, despite its small deceptions – it depicts failure and the joy and pain and pathos of a life lived sloppily.

The tragic irony here is that the CIA/White House deception of the Congress was but a small incident in the grand deception that has been the "war on terror" -- a pyramid of lies and illusions.