Sentence examples for be con from inspiring English sources

Eberling had a rough childhood and grew up to be con man and killer.

Part of the reason that we could be con men was simply because we had a tape recorder.

She often seemed to be considering these matters afresh in the course of a performance, and to be con fronting the pleasure and distress of life so close to the edge of a parapet that an audience hung on her every move, uncertain as to whether or not she would fall off.

"What a shame," is what the curiosity-seekers say as they pass the house where Mrs. Silverman was apparently strangled two years ago by a pair of tenants who turned out to be con artists, Sante Kimes and her son Kenneth.

Actually, whatever the recipe, I always think of Anna when I cook pasta, remembering her two ordinances: one, that the water you cook pasta in should be as salty as the Mediterranean; and two, that pasta should not be too officiously drained, but rather be "con la goccia", that's to say, with still some cooking water clinging to it, as this makes it easier to incorporate the sauce.

We're alleged to be con artists who, leading some sort of bizarre crew of hyper-theoretical professors, are enticing consumers to purchase a worthless product that ruins their lives.

These were assumed to be con-tricks perpetrated by the western media.

She could not be conned, though.

But they may believe that the public can be conned.

When combined with Causality, No Causation by Contraries entails that, for any property F, the F cannot be con-F.

And similarly, D7 and D8 appear to entail that if the one is not, then the others are (or at least appear to be) F and not F (and the others are, or at least appear to be, con-F and not con-F), and hence again that it is not the case that the one is not.