How to Use cheat in a Sentence

cheat

1 of 2 verb
  • I had to cheat in order to solve the puzzle.
  • They cheated him out of a fair deal.
  • The players were accused of cheating.
  • The store cheats its customers through false advertising.
  • The truth is that honest people can be and are cheated all the time.
    Katrina Gulliver, WSJ, 19 Mar. 2023
  • The show’s main draw was the cheating scandals, of which there were three by the end of the second season.
    Irina Aleksander, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2024
  • What are the most common issues that might lead to cheating?
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2024
  • But … he was cheated to a pulp in the 2017 World Series against the Houston Astros.
    Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2023
  • Without cheating, Moreno turned on the ball and crushed it with home run distance down the left-field line.
    The Arizona Republic, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Despite the cheating scandal, Robach and Holmes seem to still be in contact.
    Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2023
  • The Bravo stars’ trip was the first since Sandoval’s cheating scandal.
    Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 21 July 2023
  • There were no losers...except those who quit or cheated.
    Rick Steves, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2024
  • And don’t try to cheat: Plants that need full shade will fry under those strong rays, while sun-loving plants won’t bloom well in the dark!
    Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 13 May 2023
  • Rosensweig took issue with Okamoto’s description of Chegg as a way to cheat.
    Rachel Shin, Fortune, 12 July 2023
  • But as with any sector of society, there are bad actors who cheat to get ahead.
    Anna Funk, Discover Magazine, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The rep also shut down any speculation that there was cheating involved in the split.
    Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 18 May 2023
  • Tel Aviv Spending Passover in Israel feels like cheating.
    David Harsanyi, National Review, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The winning team had a player who admitted to a cheating episode in 2020 but is back playing -– and being hired.
    Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 31 Mar. 2024
  • There are some that might say using shortcuts in cooking is cheating.
    Julie Hirschhorn, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Two of the store's namesake sisters accuse the owner of cheating them ― and consumers ― out of millions of dollars.
    Robert Anglen, The Arizona Republic, 8 May 2023
  • Could that hurt your business if people feel emboldened to cheat?
    Phil Wahba, Fortune, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Why does social media feel that Ben Chan was cheated out of a victory?
    Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 24 May 2023
  • The facility got oxygen injections, and the team had some food supplies stored ahead of time—cheating in the view of some, but who wants to die in a glass house?
    Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 10 July 2023
  • Visser, hired to catch a cheating spouse and her lover in the act, ends up double-crossing and killing his client, emptying his safe and framing the wife for the murder.
    Chris Koseluk, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2024
  • In recent months, the show has been rocked by revelations of a cheating scandal between two of the show’s stars, Tom Sandoval and Raquel Leviss.
    Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2023
  • Don’t try cheating Try ignoring the scan result at your own peril.
    Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 8 Mar. 2024
  • That’s why there has been an uproar about students being able to cheat when writing essays outside of the classroom.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Francesca Gino stands accused of cheating in her studies of why people cheat.
    Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 7 July 2023
  • Over the past year, many rumors around the end of the pair’s relationship have made the rounds — from cheating allegations to a jar of strawberry jam.
    Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 21 Sep. 2023
  • To reinforce your form and eliminate any chance at cheating, add a bench into the equation.
    Men's Health, 8 May 2023
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cheat

2 of 2 noun
  • The cheat code of 2022 has been the beauty of the sample.
    Katie Atkinson, Billboard, 23 Aug. 2022
  • On set, the Ebos gave the cast and crew a cheat-code to tell them apart.
    Amy Nicholson, Rolling Stone, 24 Aug. 2022
  • This season, the Ravens' cheat code just hasn’t worked.
    Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 28 Oct. 2020
  • Johnson's cheat meals can cater to his sweet tooth too.
    Giovana Gelhoren, PEOPLE.com, 14 Mar. 2022
  • The moment when something like this works feels like a hack or a cheat.
    Andrew Webster, The Verge, 11 May 2023
  • All these men know is cheat, fight, drop album, and lie.
    Zoe Haylock, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Just a bunch of great cheat codes that could help people who live in the inner city.
    Ruth Reichl, Town & Country, 26 Oct. 2022
  • The Rock is known for having some pretty epic cheat days.
    Elijah Rawls, Men's Health, 22 June 2022
  • And unlike video games, there are no cheat codes handy against this boss.
    Dallas News, 5 Sep. 2022
  • That's like a cheat code right in your own home, use that to your advantage.
    Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 31 Jan. 2024
  • That’s been good news for tax cheats, the rich, and big corporations — but not for the poor.
    Paul Kiel, ProPublica, 30 Nov. 2023
  • This isn’t a full-throated defense of cheat codes or hacks.
    WIRED, 20 Oct. 2022
  • On the football field, his highlight reel runs looked like the product of a video game cheat code.
    Greg Hanlon, Peoplemag, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Here’s the cheat code: Instead of masking up for your whole flight, just cover up at the start and end of it.
    Saahil Desai, The Atlantic, 19 July 2022
  • It’s playing the game of life on someone else’s server with cheat codes.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2022
  • The 2022 Avalanche were similar, and that’s looking beyond the on-ice cheat code that is Makar.
    Conor Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2023
  • Some were low comedy, such as the case of Ann Moore, exposed as a cheat in 1813.
    Emily Burack, Town & Country, 16 Feb. 2022
  • In 2020, the box office star revealed one of his favorite cheat meals: French toast.
    Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 21 July 2022
  • His goal was to come with a guess as just how long ago each person's last cheat meal occurred.
    Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 9 Nov. 2022
  • In the ‘80s and ‘90s, video game cheat codes were a hot schoolyard commodity.
    David Silverberg, Popular Mechanics, 27 Sep. 2020
  • In New York, the cantilever as spectacle meets the cantilever as cheat.
    Curbed, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Once a week, Shaw indulges in a cheat meal, to celebrate a week of success.
    Minnah Arshad, Detroit Free Press, 15 Feb. 2021
  • This might be a cheat, because of course Apple has the best official case.
    Anthony Karcz, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
  • For the most part, if someone lies, cheats, or steals, they are shunned and excluded from future deals.
    John Koopman, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2023
  • What a helluva game and perfect cheat meal to have while watching!!
    People Staff, Peoplemag, 1 Aug. 2022
  • It’s the cheat code for what was once our country’s defining monoculture.
    Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2022
  • The Houston Astros are the most famous cheat-to-win perps in sports history.
    BostonGlobe.com, 15 Oct. 2021
  • At that time, proving that Hayward was, in fact, a liar, a scoundrel, a cheat and a swindler didn’t constitute a defense.
    Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Using them is like applying a video game cheat code to your cooking.
    Outside Online, 23 Nov. 2022
  • The highlights include two workouts a day for at least 45 minutes, no cheat meals and water, lots and lots of water.
    Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 3 June 2021

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