DELUDE in a Sentence
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13 example sentences for DELUDE, such as:
1. Hope often deludes the foolish man.
2. None of these visions ever quite deluded him.
3. He deludes himself And that just suits your madam.
4. To this reproach there is always one response which deludes women.
5. Television deludes you into thinking you have experienced reality, when you haven't.
2. None of these visions ever quite deluded him.
3. He deludes himself And that just suits your madam.
4. To this reproach there is always one response which deludes women.
5. Television deludes you into thinking you have experienced reality, when you haven't.
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Meanings and Examples of DELUDE
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delude
v. deceive mind or judgment of; lead from truth or into error; frustrate or disappoint
Classic Sentence:
1 Catherine we would fain have deluded yet; but her own quick spirit refused to delude her: it divined in secret, and brooded on the dreadful probability, gradually ripening into certainty.
2 After this, Mrs. Crupp confined herself to making pitfalls on the stairs, principally with pitchers, and endeavouring to delude Peggotty into breaking her legs.
3 And he: 'Neither did Phoebus on his oracular seat delude thee, O prince, Anchises' son, nor did any god drown me in the sea.'
4 None of these visions ever quite deluded him.
5 Encouraged and deluded by his success, David exerted all his powers to extend what he believed so holy an influence.
6 "Just as I may suppose you to be deluded," said Pierre, with a faint smile.
7 Nevertheless, he deluded himself at first; he had a feeling of security and of solitude; the bolt once drawn, he thought himself impregnable; the candle extinguished, he felt himself invisible.
8 In you everything is flat and open; your towns project like points or signals from smooth levels of plain, and nothing whatsoever enchants or deludes the eye.
9 He deludes himself And that just suits your madam.
10 To this reproach there is always one response which deludes women.
Example Sentence:
1 His mistress may delude herself into believing that he would leave his wife and marry her.
2 Hope often deludes the foolish man.
3 Television deludes you into thinking you have experienced reality, when you haven't.