How to Use con in a Sentence

con

1 of 2 verb

• The victims were conned in many ways, the government says.
  — Tresa Baldas, USA TODAY, 14 July 2023
• This time window is enough for a scammer to con someone.
  — Ax Sharma, WIRED, 28 June 2023
• Seyfried joked on the subject of Holmes's ability to con people.
  — Town & Country, 1 June 2023
• Those big eyes can con you into doing anything — and don't the scammers know it.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 1 Dec. 2022
• Snipes plays a fast-talking, street savvy type who isn’t above conning his own partner.
  — Chicago Tribune, Hartford Courant, 1 Jan. 2024
• In 1990, two men dressed as cops con their way into a Boston museum and steal a fortune in art.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 4 Apr. 2021
• Miller even had someone attempt to con him last fall, with a caller telling him there was a warrant for his arrest.
  — Kate McCann, Chicago Tribune, 12 Sep. 2022
• So John exacts his revenge, subjecting those who tried to con him to a deadly game.
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 22 Aug. 2023
• The consolation on offer lives mostly in the prose, which feels hardened by a world-weary resolve not to be conned by false hope.
  — Peter C. Baker, The New Yorker, 7 July 2023
• Would anyone really have the gumption to con a generous friend like that?
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023
• And then there’s Brady (Ben Hollingsworth), who is unknowingly being conned by his new girlfriend.
  — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2023
• In fact, the reality is that the English upper class doesn’t just con its fellow countrymen, but the wider world as well.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 14 Dec. 2020
• The fact that Norma’s fallen into a coma, and can’t be charmed (or conned) by Maxine any further, doesn’t help either.
  — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 20 Mar. 2024
• This is truer off-screen—there are too many conned to care, their errors mundane in their similarity.
  — Hannah Zeavin, Harper's Magazine, 15 June 2022
• The new series looks at the criminals who were able to manipulate and con the people around them to aid in their activities.
  — Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2021
• In this remake of a 1947 film noir, Bradley Cooper plays a carnival worker who learned a mentalist's tricks and uses them to con rich folks, which works for a time.
  — Jim Kiest, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Feb. 2022
• The show licensed a TikTok from someone who was convinced Taylor Tomlinson was conned into hosting this show (and that @midnight ran in the ’90s).
  — Vulture, 2 Feb. 2024
• National politics proved easier to con than the concrete Mob in New York.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2020
• Trending The stakes of Sharper just don’t feel right — shouldn’t trying to con someone out of billions feel more naughty, more exciting, dangerous?
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 17 Feb. 2023
• Before last year’s race, Zeller had been in a canoe exactly twice in his life, and Irish, who had done the Kenduskeag race several times, conned him into teaming up with promises the race was easy.
  — Billy Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Apr. 2023
• Lady Featherington sends Jack out to con the less beloved (and therefore more fleecable) members of the ton, which is pretty much everybody but the Bridgertons.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 26 Mar. 2022
• Their bait-and-switch scam conned users with fake properties in major cities, including Los Angeles and Denver.
  — Jenna Anderson, Sunset Magazine, 30 Jan. 2024
• Baby cuckoos, deposited by their parents as eggs in the nests of other birds, have evolved to copy the calls of their foster species to con their adoptive parents into feeding them.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 17 Nov. 2022
• So anyway, Counsel, normally vets and votes to con to confirm each of Buddhist picks during public hearings.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 7 June 2022
• Meanwhile, her family contends with their charlatan of a relative, the new Lord Featherington (Rupert Young), who seeks to con the ton out of their wealth.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 25 Mar. 2022
• But over time, Goodreads has also become a hunting ground for scammers and trolls looking to con smaller authors, take down books with spammed ratings, cyberstalk users or worse.
  — Megan McCluskey, Time, 9 Aug. 2021
• The four-part series inspired by the true story of a woman who conned her way into a victims’ association and quickly became one of its pillars.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 3 Oct. 2023
• Abbas reportedly planned a scheme in 2020 to con a Qatari businessman into sending him hundreds of thousands of dollars.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 11 Nov. 2022
• What makes this case different is that key backers of the measure got conned, too.
  — Daniel Borenstein, Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2026
• Their father, my grandfather, was a career low-life criminal and was in jail all the time for forgery and conning people.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2025

con

2 of 2 noun

• Then, read the reviews and take note of the pros and cons.
  — Addison Aloian, womenshealthmag.com, 3 June 2023
• Discussing the pros and cons with an agent is the first step.
  — Ryan Conner, Dallas News, 8 Sep. 2023
• Adults can ask questions about the pros and cons of each type.
  — Phyllis L. Fagell, CNN, 30 Jan. 2024
• Warm the Soyrizo con Papas in the pan with a bit of oil.
  — Anita L. Arambula, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 June 2023
• Read ahead to get the scoop on the average cost, pros, and cons.
  — Kate McGregor, House Beautiful, 28 Apr. 2023
• Here is a look at the pros and cons of these investments.
  — Lori Ioannou, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2023
• There’s no shortage of cons or of grifters like this in tourist spots.
  — Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 12 July 2023
• Read on to learn more about each website and the pros and cons of using them.
  — Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 18 Mar. 2024
• Despite the mod-cons, the coach still looks quite classic.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 10 Apr. 2023
• The cons is like…there’s too many bums that got internet.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2023
• But while that may seem like too many checks in the pros column for the method, consider some of the cons.
  — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 10 May 2023
• One day they are given a chance to get rich quick but have less than 24 hours to pull off the perfect con.
  — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 27 Oct. 2023
• But as the first game approached, there was a sense that maybe, just maybe, things might change—that at the very least, the rest of the world might see through the Qatari’s con.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 10 May 2023
• Here are the pros and cons as well as a general overview of chasing elk with a long gun.
  — Jace Bauserman, Field & Stream, 22 Feb. 2024
• Or, asking it to list the pros and cons of a project, or display the most recent or relevant files.
  — Amrita Khalid, The Verge, 1 Mar. 2024
• There is a thin line between a con-man and a gambler, and the Best Picture-winning The Sting is one of the best films in both genres.
  — Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 30 Apr. 2022
• But the exit scene may actually be more fun than the con, at least for an hour or two.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2023
• Here’s Part 1 of the series on the pros and cons of a contract extension for Tagovailoa.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2024
• The big one on the cons list was loss of anonymity, but probably that was a way of writing self-hate or something.
  — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 June 2023
• For a school project, one student interviews a Border Patrol agent about the pros and cons of his job.
  — Sam Russek, The New Republic, 20 Oct. 2023
• In other words: the whole thing was a con — a con masterminded by somebody else, of course.
  — Tori Telfer, refinery29.com, 23 Feb. 2021
• While this stroller is relatively lightweight, our tester found that this was just as much of a con as a pro.
  — Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 25 July 2023
• One tell-tale sign of a crypto con is when the scammer asks you to send money in advance for any reason, the FTC warns.
  — Cora Lewis, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2023
• June, however, does come with cons: large crowds and high hotel rates.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 16 May 2023
• There should be a 9/11-type commission that dissects the pros and cons of the lockdown for public perusal.
  — Readers, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2023
• Purlie’s a benign enough con man whose con is social justice.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2023
• There could be more headlines of a boycott, pro or con, coming our way in the near future.
  — Michael Lewis, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
• Below is a breakdown of the most common standard window types, including where each style works best and the pros and cons to consider.
  — Roxanne Downer, USA Today, 22 Jan. 2026
• Read more about the pros and cons of multi-year grants.
  — John Wilkerson, STAT, 20 Jan. 2026
• What are the pros and cons of each vehicle and what would be your preference?
  — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 18 Jan. 2026