Sentence examples for an elaborate con from inspiring English sources

When her children are summarily rejected by a snooty private school, Dahlia pulls off an elaborate con on the head mistress and succeeds in enrolling them.

He never writes with a smirk, never lets on that a murder mystery is an elaborate con game played between writer and reader.

The apparently incomprehensible complexity of securitised debt left many economic experts, not to mention regulators, as clueless as the mark in an elaborate con trick.

Listening to Richard Serra talk about sculpture is like listening to Russell Crowe talk about acting: after a while you feel you're either in the presence of genius or the victim of an elaborate con.

In my last year of university, I lived alone but entertained large groups regularly, partly as an elaborate con to get them to top up my flat's supplies of alcohol.

Note: The previous predictions were all guaranteed by gambling expert Sarah Phillips: former ESPN columnist and, allegedly, front for an elaborate con preying on comedic sports bloggers and those who run Twitter parody accounts.

I convinced myself that Dave was a con man planning an elaborate sting to separate me from my down payment.

Canary, Spitzer alleges, engaged in an elaborate bunco straight out of David Maurer's classic "The Big Con," effectively betting on horse races (in this case, mutual-fund prices) after they'd already been run.

Writer watched from behind an elaborate recording con sole where the men sat with the machine & an audio engineer.

Whether acting as a genuine friend or constructing an elaborate long con, Banksy has clearly found a new canvas for his provocations.

Cisgender men could pose as trans women in an elaborate long con to sneak into your bathroom to look at your genitals.