Example Sentences

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Enough fluff coverage for a team, coach and management that is fleecing its loyal fan base.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2016

Privately, Bernie Madoff knows that this news will further alarm his institutional investors, especially the overseas hedge funds he is fleecing through his Ponzi scheme.

From New York Times • Apr. 23, 2011

As in the play of the same name, the hero's occupation is fleecing the wicked rich to invest the righteous poor.

From Time Magazine Archive

It’s as hard work sponging one fool as it is fleecing a couple of hundred sheep, eh?”

From Reginald Cruden A Tale of City Life by Reed, Talbot Baines