Sentence examples for swindle of from inspiring English sources

It was the swindle of the century.

Disappointingly, it's dry, such is the swindle of television.

"It was probably the greatest rock'n'roll swindle of the 1970s," he said.

The famous sportswriter Jimmy Cannon, who hated Ali, called the fight a "swindle of a charade".

During the Great Depression, the firm lost much of its capital in a swindle of its own invention.

In "The Man Who Loved Dogs," Padura writes that "the Utopia was betrayed and, worse still, reduced to a swindle of the greatest human wishes".

Thousands of British travellers are being swindled out of millions of pounds each year through scams involving flights, accommodation and religious pilgrimages.

But he was swindled out of much of it through some tax-avoidance scam involving containers.

Lehman Brothers isn't calling it anything at all or saying anything about being swindled out of upward of $50 million.

It is not the first time that wealthy people have been swindled out of huge sums of money, nor will it be the last.

Ms. Cates, the mother of the actress Phoebe Cates, also said she was swindled of $5 million.