Sentence examples for try to con from inspiring English sources

When she moved to California, she was shocked that people had the "idea to capitalize on it or to try to con your neighbors into something useless".

"I had a long conversation with one of the governor's minions and I told him, 'Don't try to con us that the governor is actively engaged,' " he said.

"Just time for him to try to con the ref for a penalty - be spotted and sent off with 30 minutes to go.

He will do anything to win, and his nickname, Pescadito, or little fish, comes from his habit of flopping to the ground to try to con a free kick for his team.

Parents will also appreciate the fact that it is easy to set Barney up and that the MyBarney website does not try to con you into signing up for spam from the various companies behind Barney.

As we saw earlier this month, the government tried its best to hide the latest greenhouse gas emissions data and, since then, has done nothing but try to con voters that all is well.

Eventually I proved to him that I wasn't trying to con him.

We tried to con each other into trading candy we liked better.

She had been warned that prisoners often tried to con visitors.

Conservative MP Bob Neill said it was a case of Ukip trying to con voters.

She was partly a con artist trying to con Don Jr. into taking that meeting, and she was successful.