Example Sentences

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It got our outfits exactly right, and the faces could have fooled our own moms.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 12, 2025

If the FA Cup really is struggling to count as a consolation prize for Guardiola and City this season, you could have fooled everyone inside Vitality Stadium who watched him.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2025

With an $80 million payroll this year — hardly what the front office believed was “all in” — you could have fooled me.

From Washington Times • Sep. 14, 2023

During the War of 1812, locals were said to have fooled the British by hanging lanterns high in trees and elsewhere to misdirect enemy gunfire.

From Washington Post • Dec. 23, 2022

If he had not known about their witchery, they might have fooled him.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko