Sentence examples for tricked herself from inspiring English sources

Well, she told me, she'd essentially tricked herself into getting excited about it.

Civil ceremonies don't feature much in books, and when one turns up in Graham Greene's 1938 Brighton Rock, Pinkie and Rose's event is typically miserable: "She had tricked herself up for the wedding, discarded the hat he hadn't liked: a new mackintosh, a touch of powder and cheap lipstick.

These ellipses in conversation help Blanchett to trick herself out of self-consciousness.

Unless she was hungry or needed to use a bathroom, Samantha could usually trick herself into thinking that she was "just a normal person person".

After five years with her boyfriend, she couldn't trick herself into the desire for him she once felt; she could only trick him into believing she still felt it.

When asked about her technique for affecting her pathetic trashed look, the actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead said she could trick herself into going physically aglaze and out of control.

Palin suggested that Obama was cherry-picking his glacier to make a point, but she was guilty of that trick herself.

Yet she sets herself up as a seductress only because, as a young girl, she is herself tricked and seduced by a man, and she remains remarkably frank throughout about her propensity for dishonesty.

Eventually, Dora describes how she herself tricked God and cheated death: "I survived because I wasn't killed.

Or, in her sad little rented room, she gets herself tricked out for the evening in a tight miniskirt, black net stockings, and stilettos, and opens the door to step out onto the street: it's morning and she's at home.

The woman at the center of an elaborate GoFundMe scam that used a fictitious feel-good story to compel people to donate money to a homeless veteran claims she herself was tricked into participating in the fraudulent scheme.