Sentence examples for swindled in from inspiring English sources

Magicians say there is some romance to being swindled in three-card monte.

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Those victims, he pointed out, were drawn directly from law enforcement files across the country and were thus known to have been swindled in one way or another.

Men who, for the sake of argument, were all swindled in a Ponzi scheme orchestrated by Obama wearing a fake mustache.

Long suspicious of being swindled in a recording deal and afraid to fly, he did not cut his first album, Gypsy Flamenco (1963), until an American producer took recording equipment to him in France.

Mr. Picard is hitting a deadline for filing lawsuits seeking to recover money for people swindled in Mr. Madoff's Ponzi scheme, which came crashing down two years ago today.

It was published in 1821 by William Playfair, a Scottish engineer, political economist and scoundrel: he was convicted of libel in England and swindling in France.

(The dictionary lists "deceive, cheat, and swindle," in its definition of the word "con". Never was a word choice more appropriate).

So it is with initial letters and here's a clue from the Times in which the hint that this is happening is wittily concealed: 6ac Face protection racket or swindle in village: heads must roll! (5) So we're taking the first letters of "racket", "or", "swindle", "in" and "village" and rolling them back to give us VISOR.

Mr. Marshall was born in the spring of 1924 in New York City to Brooke Astor, before that was her name, the mother he was accused of swindling in her waning years before her death at age 105 in 2007.

This was a variation on the "unclaimed estate" swindle, in which a sucker is led to believe he stands to get a cut of a rich estate tied up in litigation if only he will contribute enough money to help straighten out the mess.