Sentence examples for conning from inspiring English sources

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conning

verb

Present participle of con

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You can't really do that without conning them because in the end it has no meaning.

The scientist, who can't be named at this time, also accused SNH of conning the public to boost tourism while "driving around the Highlands with their big, posh Land Rovers".

It would be tempting to conclude that Mrs Clinton's image-makers have successfully disguised her ambitious side, conning Middle America into identifying with her.

Also, unlike England's top clubs, Italian ones have not been good at conning their fans into buying overpriced team strips.But the tide could turn soon.

These submarines had their deck guns removed and streamlined conning towers fitted; larger batteries and a snorkel were installed; four torpedoes and, in some craft, one of the four diesel engines were removed.

"You can't really do that without conning them.

An illegal immigrant was found guilty today of conning Attorney General Baroness Scotland into hiring her as a cleaner.

Dobby's favourite item of clothing is the sock after Harry freed him by conning Lucius Malfoy into throwing him one, which explains the growing number by his exhibition on the tour.

In a lot of cases Arslan was conning modest farmers out of huge sums of money".

He was fired by Carter and sued by Lee in 2013, after the author accused him of conning her into transferring the Mockingbird copyright to him.

No wonder Nick's approval ratings are plummeting, because tacitly confessing to campaigning as the opponent of a key policy he privately supported and conning coalition concessions with whoppers isn't brilliant politics.

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