Sentence examples for been tricked by a from inspiring English sources
But she had been tricked by a gang, four members of which were later jailed for trafficking for sexual exploitation.
In 1917 a Zeppelin got as far as Khartoum before turning back apparently having been tricked by a bogus radio message sent by the British.
But a spokesperson for the force later admitted that the officers had been tricked by a persuasive protester who insisted he would use the megaphone to help calm down the crowd.
If people feel they've been tricked by a piece of genuine clickbait — say, a headline like "Hollywood Starlet Arrested Again!" on what turns out to be a 5-year-old story about Lindsay Lohan — they are likely to stop clicking on these recommendations.
I watched students' faces light up as they made a friend's arm move involuntarily, as they realized that they had been tricked by a clever optical illusion, and as they touched a real sheep's brain to compare it to their own.
The Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command (MARSOC) had been tricked by a Karzai-appointed commander.
How a young salesgirl in Manhattan was tricked by a man into shooting his ex-wife on a subway train.
If, for example, a consumer is tricked by a dodgy tour operator, there is little the EU can do.
As Europa was tricked by a bull, so Minos's wife Pasiphae tricked a bull into sex and bore the Minotaur, half man, half bull.
"They think we can be tricked by a maneuver like suspending a couple of decrees for a few weeks and then reintroducing them, and they are wrong".
