Sentence examples for snookered from inspiring English sources

Howard claims to have snookered [the industry] on this one, but I have rarely seen them lose a sophisticated game like this," he says.

If billionaires got snookered, who cared?

He talks of his "desire to want to crash the car, as I call it, because I'd sort of snookered my next career.

The Speaker emerged from the proceedings both stronger and in the same place: about to be snookered by Clinton on the Republican tax-cut bill.

The same novel ends with Russia annexing Crimea after its citizens are snookered into requesting the invasion themselves: in other words, it eerily anticipates this week's news.

I'm a fan of the radio show "Car Talk" (which ceased taping in 2012 but still airs in reruns), and a regular concern of callers who sought the comic but genuine advice of its repair-shop-owning hosts, Tom and Ray Magliozzi, was whether they were getting snookered by car mechanics into repairs they didn't need.

Suddenly tricks like the Ambitious Card, the routine that so famously snookered Harry Houdini, looked easy by comparison.

That left many Democrats grousing that Mr. Obama was getting snookered, and convinced Republicans that their leaders could always out-negotiate the president.

After seeing the full video, the N.A.A.C.P., which had initially applauded Ms. Sherrod's resignation, had reversed itself, saying it had been "snookered" into believing she had been acting with racial bias.

Later, after officials at the organization had found and released a tape of Ms. Sherrod's entire 45-minute speech, the group's president, Ben Jealous, apologized and said the N.A.A.C.P. had been "snookered".

After seeing the full video, the N.A.A.C.P. said Tuesday that it had been "snookered" into believing Ms. Sherrod had acted with bias.