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.

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 Meanings and Examples of DELUDE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
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.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
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.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 34. MY AUNT ASTONISHES ME
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.'
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SIXTH
4  None of these visions ever quite deluded him.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE INTERIOR OF A HEART
5  Encouraged and deluded by his success, David exerted all his powers to extend what he believed so holy an influence.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
6  "Just as I may suppose you to be deluded," said Pierre, with a faint smile.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II
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.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL
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.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
9  He deludes himself And that just suits your madam.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: VII
10  To this reproach there is always one response which deludes women.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 33 SOUBRETTE AND MISTRESS
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.