Example Sentences

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The phone giant says other firms are "swindling" people by keeping them on rates that cover the cost of a handset, even after they have finished paying for the phone.

From BBC • May 4, 2023

If I'm not powerfully mistaken, Jim, you are swindling yourself out of twenty cents on the string-beans.

From Dixie Hart by Harben, Will N. (William Nathaniel)

In the first place you are swindling Alice out o' her money, an' in the second, the good name o' the Harwoods is in danger.

From The Vision of Elijah Berl by Nason, Frank Lewis

They have gone into partnership, and they propose to swindle this earth and are swindling it.

From New Tabernacle Sermons by Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)