Sentence examples for used to swindle from inspiring English sources

Gebremedhin Araya, a former treasurer and TPLF co-founder Dr. Aregawi Berhe, detailed the scam used to swindle, hustle and con millions of dollars from international famine relief organizations in the mid-1980s.

Remember that Texas Holdem was once a kind of parlor game that hucksters used to swindle draw and stud poker players.

But the stories scammers use to swindle people do change, usually once a community starts to catch on that a story is bogus.

Never use magic to swindle people out of their money.

It may be that Trump's continuous stream of insults and oddities — say, going off on South Korea when North Korea detonates a bomb — is not clinical but tactical, a high-level version of the distracting patter perfected by the three-card monte guys who used to work their swindles on the street corners around midtown Manhattan.

Like the game of art collection, playing cards can be used to create community, forge alliances, swindle enemies, and astonish strangers. .

Because auction sites like eBay are open to all -- eBay allows anyone to list an item for a fee of 25 cents to $2 -- the sites have been used to commit a wide range of swindles.

In 2003, she was convicted of theft and fraud for her role in a bank swindle in which A.N.C. stationery was used to obtain loans for nonexistent employees.

Swindle's advice to new writers: "Get used to sitting with yourself and playing around everyday so you get the groove of discipline.

A popular swindle, known as past posting, required a dummy telegraph office that was used to persuade the mark that horse-race results could be delayed long enough for him to bet on the winner after the race was won.

Vanclay (1991) reviewed approaches used to incorporate stochasticity into growth projection systems, and considered many approaches to be either naïve attempts or ad hoc swindles.