Example Sentences

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“But most women feel gypped by life if they don’t get a chance at it.”

From The New Yorker • May 1, 2017

Politics is the province of the unhappy and querulous; perhaps all the more so because, having paid, people feel particularly gypped.

From The Guardian • Aug. 7, 2012

When she happened on the oils stuffed in a trunk, her husband assured her: "They're nothing�just some junk I got gypped on."

From Time Magazine Archive

When the Senator asked Mr. Young if widows, orphans and other investors "don't get gypped by these big holding companies," the Manhattan broker replied: "That's right."

From Time Magazine Archive

It was the Atlantic that broke the market to sixty-five cents, filled their storage tanks and contracted a million barrels more than they had tankage for, then gypped the price to three dollars.

From Flowing Gold by Beach, Rex Ellingwood