Sentence examples for fool readers from inspiring English sources

There was no intent to fool readers, Mr. Stotsky said.

This is a deliberate attempt to fool readers, demonstrating that there is no good faith here.

But it is not, as he seems to think, a trick, as the false identity of the writer JT LeRoy was a trick, a performance consciously created to fool readers and to drum up interest in LeRoy's supposedly autobiographical books.

Because not only have I read more than one book in my life, I'd just had it explained to me at great length two-and-a-half pages earlier when a character called – oh yes – Oshima, outlined the story of Oedipus Rex to Kafka (and by extension we fool readers).

- Minority Report precogs predict the news three weeks in advance, fool readers into thinking they have killed someone.

Some wrap their papers in advertisements designed to fool readers into thinking they are actual news stories.

The first of April is normally a day of frothy fun, where newspapers and brands compete to produce the best jokes and the worst puns to fool their readers.

"We figure that if it fooled us, it would probably fool our readers, too," Ms. Foyler said.

I agree that such fictionalizing of fact is unfair to the unsuspecting reader, but I have to wonder if Greenman himself is trying to fool the reader by claiming that his disappointment in discovering the basis of so-called fictitious works is factual, when it may be nothing but fiction itself.

The best ofthem not only fool the reader but, afterwards, they give us the supreme pleasure of thinking that "I should have got that myself".

Philip B. Corbett, associate managing editor for standards, put it this way: "If the point of native advertising is to fool the reader, that's no good.