Sentence examples for playing a scam from inspiring English sources

As someone who never baked a cake or made pie crust until I was truly grown, I now know that all those people whose deft activities had made me feel too clumsy, too inexpert, too "unhomespun" to pull a tin out of the oven and feel that warm, pleasantly self-satisfied sense of achievement were, frankly, playing a scam.

Victims of scams such as these are refunded losses by the card provider, unless they are playing an active, knowing part in the scam.

Avalos said she was horrified when she discovered her face had played a role in the scam.

Harris jokes about the fact that he's an out gay man, playing it as a scam he uses to get over on unsuspecting women.

"He played a significant role in the scam by systematically targeting British students and UK financial institutions in order to steal large amounts of money that were then dispersed across numerous bank accounts.

And you can bet NATO is plays a leading role in this blood-soaked scam.

Finally, we explored if total body fat could modify or play a role in the marked increase in sCAM, MPO or tPAI-1 response to 48-hour FFA stimulation.

Julianna Margulies plays a sexy (and very savvy) bartender whom Mr. Paxton scams, then loves.

That would help prevent the worst abuses of transfer pricing scams, in which tax havens play a handy role.

De Niro plays a fixer connected to the underworld who is involved in gambling scams.

In "Autumn Spring," which opens today in Manhattan (review, Page 26), the cuddly, avuncular Brodsky plays Frantisek Hana, a feisty 75-year-old former actor, who gets through the frustrations of forced retirement by playing harmless scams -- pretending to be a world-famous musician shopping for a country villa or introducing himself to strangers as a long-lost friend.