Sentence examples for deception of an from inspiring English sources

The infield fly rule protects base runners from the deception of an infielder who may allow an infield fly ball to drop, thus setting up an easy force play.

The novel then is the account (reminiscent of Geoffrey Wolff's memoir, "The Duke of Deception") of an excruciatingly unstable childhood, one haunted by a charming, gifted and utterly unreliable parent with a penchant for criminality.

Her online mischief is encouraged, it turns out, by the deception of an anonymous vigilante posing as a friend via instant message, who goes on to hold Casey hostage with the threat of uploading compromising videos and pictures lest she agrees to their every command.

It was called the Trout Memo and compared the deception of an enemy in wartime to fly fishing.

This is the most calculating, long-term deception of a vulnerable neighbour I have come across".

Yet Biden preferred this candor to the weak deception of a toupee, weave or comb-over.

"They want you to believe there is a deception of a computer," he said.

It achieves the deception of a low-grade whistle, but you sense its getting flatter all the time.