Sentence examples for only a trick from inspiring English sources

(They seem huge and scary at first, though we realize later that this is only a trick of perspective).

It's only a trick to people who memorize the size and cost of an item the first time they buy it and assume that reality will never change.

She also seems to die at many different times during the book, only to reappear unscathed, as if mortal danger were only a trick of the mind.

That, however, was only a trick of the eye: wet autumn leaves, glinting through clear panes as the sun broke through the clouds.

He has, she says, "a kind of hopeful aspect; maybe only a trick of the light or something about his look that suggests a constant readiness to play.

The heatwave has left him bewildered and irrational, however, and when his car breaks down, he wanders into the woods, where he discovers a house that seems "the most real and solid thing I'd ever seen, and at the same time only a trick of my sight in the heat".

He has struggled with the wind and hit from several awkward stances that only a trick-shot artist could love.

Exposing calves only is a trick that fashion editors have long known.

Note that the corrugation of the surface is here only used a trick to introduce anisotropy of the frictional properties [18 20].

The Atlantean god takes full possession of Sophia and it is only by a trick that Indiana rids her of the necklace and destroys it, thus freeing her.

Her band has only a few tricks — slow-building guitars; loud, abrupt crashes; persistent rumbles of drum and, in places, violin.