DUPE in a Sentence

Learn DUPE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

15 example sentences for DUPE, such as:

1. We know some sex offenders dupe the psychologists who assess them.
2. These despised themselves, as being the dupes of a wily fraud, a guileful snake in the grass.
3. Cease, then, to allow yourself to be duped by vain hopes, that even your own excellent heart refuses to believe in.
4. But the clerks were not the dupes of this deceit, and their lugubrious looks settled down into resigned countenances.
5. While the gullible Watson often was made a dupe by unscrupulous parties, Sherlock Holmes was far more difficult to fool.

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 Meanings and Examples of DUPE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
dupe
 n.  easily deceived person; duplicate of photographic image
Classic Sentence:
1  He held the blotter in his hand and contemplated it in stupid delight, almost ready to laugh at the hallucination of which he had been the dupe.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER I—A DRINKER IS A BABBLER
2  de Treville was the more the dupe, from having himself, as we have said, observed something fresh between the cardinal, the king, and the queen.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 10 A MOUSETRAP IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
3  "Certainly, madame," said Porthos, winking to himself, as a gambler does who laughs at the dupe he is about to pluck.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 29 HUNTING FOR THE EQUIPMENTS
4  Thus the poor woman was completely the dupe of the prisoner, whom, notwithstanding her hints, she persisted in watching all night.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 58 ESCAPE
5  A woman who could betray me for such a rival was not worth contending for; she deserved only scorn; less, however, than I, who had been her dupe.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
6  Forth now, dupe, and face thankless perils; forth, cut down the Tyrrhenian lines; give the Latins peace in thy protection.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SEVENTH
7  These despised themselves, as being the dupes of a wily fraud, a guileful snake in the grass.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
8  But the clerks were not the dupes of this deceit, and their lugubrious looks settled down into resigned countenances.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 32 A PROCURATOR'S DINNER
9  Cease, then, to allow yourself to be duped by vain hopes, that even your own excellent heart refuses to believe in.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17. The Abbe's Chamber.
10  Thus the Genoese, subtle as he was, was duped by Edmond, in whose favor his mild demeanor, his nautical skill, and his admirable dissimulation, pleaded.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22. The Smugglers.
11  This letter gave Elizabeth some pain; but her spirits returned as she considered that Jane would no longer be duped, by the sister at least.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26
Example Sentence:
1  While the gullible Watson often was made a dupe by unscrupulous parties, Sherlock Holmes was far more difficult to fool.
2  We know some sex offenders dupe the psychologists who assess them.
3  When they realized that the Wizard didn't know how to get them back to Kansas, Dorothy and her companions were indignant that they'd been duped by a charlatan.
4  A ''super computer'' has duped humans into thinking it is a 13-year-old boy to become the first machine to pass the ''iconic'' Turing Test, experts have said.