Sentence examples for ancient trick from inspiring English sources

It's an ancient trick, but one of the women, who is pregnant, declares herself so shocked she is about to go into labor.

This is an ancient trick of the masters who used to log onto CompuServe or AOL's tech support forums and publicly trash a company in the hope that someone would pay attention to them.

Mr. Cramer's computer algorithms create fractal patterns that exploit a couple of ancient tricks used by animal predators.

Jack Seale Very much in the recent tradition of David Blaine and Dynamo – right down to the "Oh my God, how did he do that?!" responses you never used to get with Ali Bongo and David Nixon Troy Von Scheibnerer is the latest young street magician to repackage ancient tricks with a hip, tattooed sheen.

At fragrance workshops, groups learn ancient perfume making tricks as they make their own cologne or orange blossom eau de toilette.

The research suggests that the Chavín culture and perhaps other ancient cultures knew acoustic tricks that might be the envy of a modern concert hall engineer.

Responding to a viewer's question posed during Tuesday's episode of "The 700 Club," Robertson claimed that the ancient mindfulness practice tricks people into "praying to a Hindu deity".

Ancient toolmakers learned that trick, too.

His maternal grandfather was Louis Krieger, known as Pops, a magician renowned for his mastery of the ancient cups-and-balls trick.

Due to our time constraint, Leo must retain the enormous amount of new vocabulary and memorizes using a trick from ancient Greek orators called "Memory Palaces".

It is a continental trick, an ancient understanding of the power of stories to reveal and obfuscate -- the play within the play.