How to Use con in a Sentence

con

1 of 3 noun

• Feels like some sort of long con.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
• What are the pros and cons there?
  — Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 15 June 2026
• The board weighed the pros and cons.
  — Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 23 June 2026
• Here are the pros and cons of each.
  — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 13 Feb. 2026
• At first glance, this sounds like a con.
  — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Sep. 2025
• What are the pros and cons of a rate cap?
  — Marley Malenfant, Austin American Statesman, 14 Jan. 2026
• Paul was the song-and-dance man, but with a con.
  — Lili Anolik, Vanity Fair, 12 Jan. 2026
• The spon-con on the coffin took me out!
  — Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2025
• There are pros but there are also cons.
  — Patricia Fersch, Forbes.com, 19 May 2026
• Seems like a fitting end to his long con.
  — Chris Brennan, USA Today, 26 Mar. 2026
• Dryer balls don't have many cons.
  — Lauren David, Southern Living, 22 Oct. 2025
• Here are the pros and cons of each type of machine.
  — Emily Johnson, Bon Appetit Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
• What are the pros and cons of cruise wristbands?
  — Nathan Diller, USA Today, 7 Aug. 2025
• The new trash fee was just an old con-man, bait-and-switch scam.
  — U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Dec. 2025
• The major cons are the heavy weight and huge base cost.
  — Cameron Martindell, Outside, 3 Jan. 2026
• Wouldn’t a con woman rear a child to be a con artist?
  — Oline H. Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2026
• Discussing the pros and cons with an agent is the first step.
  — Ryan Conner, Dallas News, 8 Sep. 2023
• Read more about the pros and cons of multi-year grants.
  — John Wilkerson, STAT, 20 Jan. 2026
• Adults can ask questions about the pros and cons of each type.
  — Phyllis L. Fagell, CNN, 30 Jan. 2024
• Some swindlers thumb their nose at both and keep their cons going.
  — Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 14 Aug. 2025
• There’s no shortage of cons or of grifters like this in tourist spots.
  — Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 12 July 2023
• Of course, Chance wonders if this is a con.
  — Oline H. Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2026
• The cons aren't just in Michigan.
  — Frank Witsil, Freep.com, 5 Sep. 2025
• With all that in mind, here are the pros and cons of Stein's hire.
  — Ray Padilla, Louisville Courier Journal, 3 Dec. 2025
• What are the pros and cons of a pergola?
  — Melissa Minton, Architectural Digest, 10 Mar. 2026
• That can be a pro or a con depending on your goals.
  — Morgan Pearson, Verywell Health, 22 Aug. 2025
• There are many cons to dating a succubus.
  — Erin La Rosa, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026
• But the pros of living here far outweigh the cons.
  — Terry Ward, AFAR Media, 2 Sep. 2025
• However, that sounds more like a pro than a con.
  — New Atlas, 8 June 2026
• What are the cons of investing in gold?
  — Liz Knueven, CNBC, 28 May 2026

con

2 of 3 verb

• This watch has conned me of my time.
  — Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
• Women who could be trampled by men, conned, deceived.
  — Shafiq Najib, ABC News, 3 Mar. 2026
• Snipes plays a fast-talking, street savvy type who isn’t above conning his own partner.
  — Chicago Tribune, Hartford Courant, 1 Jan. 2024
• The show’s about religious hypocrisy and being conned.
  — Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2025
• What makes this case different is that key backers of the measure got conned, too.
  — Daniel Borenstein, Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2026
• Those big eyes can con you into doing anything — and don't the scammers know it.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 1 Dec. 2022
• Seyfried joked on the subject of Holmes's ability to con people.
  — Town & Country, 1 June 2023
• 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
• Would anyone really have the gumption to con a generous friend like that?
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023
• 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
• Seventeen years after the public was conned, every last warning has come true.
  — U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2025
• My mother was conned twice — once by a Ponzi scheme, once by a diagnosis that dressed up as good health for too many years.
  — Marissa Stapley, PEOPLE, 7 July 2026
• 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
• 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
• Love Con Revenge tells the real stories of people who have been conned by people from dating apps.
  — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 8 Sep. 2025
• 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
• 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
• Workers should be on the lookout for phony recruitment ads designed to con desperate people.
  — ABC News, 25 Mar. 2026
• 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
• And then there’s Brady (Ben Hollingsworth), who is unknowingly being conned by his new girlfriend.
  — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2023
• Speaking of criminals, scammers are getting better at using voice deepfakes to con people.
  — Matt Burgess, WIRED, 18 Mar. 2023
• 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
• National politics proved easier to con than the concrete Mob in New York.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2020
• The sellers display a kindhearted face to con emotional buyers to pay thousands of pounds for pedigree breeds, designer mixes or mutts.
  — Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2021
• There was at least one other incident in which Bustillo is accused of conning a player out of $4,000.
  — Sofia Saric, Miami Herald, 28 May 2026
• 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
• 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
• The centerpiece of his recent column is a list of quarterly rate increases after reform passed, presented as proof consumers were conned.
  — David Wilson, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2026

con

3 of 3 adjective

• When the guy got out of prison and tried to make a con-artist comeback, Mark’s book was there, standing in the way.
  — Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
• The word affordability is a con job by the Democrats.
  — ABC News, 7 Dec. 2025
• This column was published as a pro-con about clemency for Tina Peters.
  — Krista Kafer, Denver Post, 6 Mar. 2026
• But when the man Maizy brings back is more con than corn, Lulu and the entire town must learn that sometimes help comes from unlikely corny places.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 3 May 2023
• This could not be better illustrated by the pro-con on transit posted Friday on the U-T’s Opinion pages.
  — U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Mar. 2026
• After the presentation, and pro/con arguments were made by multiple people during the city council meeting, the measure was passed by a 7-2 vote.
  — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Apr. 2026
• That’s a nice surprise for those of us who are tired of pretending that rocking chairs and flickering flashlights were ever scary — but a brutal slap in the face for anyone still taking these con-artist ghost busters seriously.
  — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 7 Sep. 2025
• Indeed, Harmon's aim for her story was not to wade through the pro/con GMO arguments, but to open a new window onto a complicated subject.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 1 Aug. 2013
• And while the old Miranda would have faced her mid-life crisis by whipping a legal pad out of her normcore briefcase and making a pro-con list, this Miranda’s response is a lot more Carrie.
  — Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 21 Jan. 2022
• Essentially, Top Cat paid homage to the style and tone of Sergeant Bilko (aka Thil Silvers Show), bringing those con-artist antics to a cartoon audience.
  — Marc Berman, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
• Kind played the con-man theater producer Max Bialystock on Broadway in 2004 and at the Hollywood Bowl in 2012.
  — Greg Evans, Deadline, 11 Feb. 2026