How to Use swindle in a Sentence

swindle

1 of 2 verb

• You might be swindled or lied to.
  — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 18 Sep. 2025
• Robin Williams was swindled a few times.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 28 Feb. 2026
• Con artists swindle people for big names and big games, and events.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 6 June 2023
• That rowdy group is out to swindle and hoodwink rich guys.
  — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 14 Jan. 2026
• Black residents who got swindled out of land could not turn to the courts.
  — Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
• So if you have been swindled, don't be embarrassed.
  — Frank Witsil, Freep.com, 5 Sep. 2025
• Then the numbers began to show up in cold-calling scams to swindle people.
  — Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023
• In the play ‘Gas Light,’ the goal was to swindle the woman out of money.
  — Richard Galant, CNN, 4 Dec. 2022
• There are telltale signs that something is fishy — and ways to reduce your chances of being swindled.
  — Sarah Hutter, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2025
• Streep's got the showiest role as a widow who helps upend the scheme after she's swindled out of millions.
  — Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2019
• Tish only swindled the bank out of $19,000.
  — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 11 Oct. 2025
• Roth writes candidly about the choices that put her in the position to be swindled.
  — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 2 June 2023
• He gets chased by cops, swindles the wrong ping-pong goobers and becomes embroiled in a canine extortion scheme.
  — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 23 Dec. 2025
• This is a producer who swindled money endlessly and made life hell for his victims.
  — Steve Belanger, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025
• Wood placed the blame for his mother’s destitution on the two men, the man at the legal aid group and the lawyer, for swindling her.
  — Andy Nguyen, La Cañada Valley Sun, 2 Nov. 2017
• She was accused on swindling a Clermont bank of $1,400, records show.
  — Stephen Hudak, OrlandoSentinel.com, 18 June 2018
• Lopez and Wu star in the true-crime drama as strippers who swindle wealthy Wall Street clientele.
  — Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2019
• The man was not swindled out of money, but his children were concerned about someone applying for loans under his name.
  — cleveland.com, 8 July 2019
• Crooks are using the coronavirus pandemic as a springboard for all sorts of money-swindling schemes.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 8 Apr. 2020
• They were almost swindled by a third party but found a factory in China to produce the product at scale.
  — Matthew Wilson, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2020
• In 2016, it was revealed that a con man had swindled Nicole out of $10 million.
  — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 12 Nov. 2025
• O’Loughlin also became convinced that Eaton Vance was swindling him.
  — Longreads, 6 Apr. 2023
• Murdaugh is accused of swindling nearly $9 million from his former law firm and his clients in more than a dozen indictments.
  — Fox News, 1 Mar. 2023
• Nasyrova fled to New York after she was accused of swindling the woman out of her money.
  — Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 1 Mar. 2018
• If two other boxers appeared in the ring, a ticket holder would have a viable argument that they had been swindled by a bait-and-switch.
  — Michael McCann, SI.com, 26 Aug. 2019
• Apparently Smith, aware of the LG case against Shin, was wary that he, too, might get swindled.
  — James Vlahos, GQ, 18 Apr. 2018
• The term describes winning an individual’s trust over time in order to abruptly swindle them.
  — Carlos Garcia, Fortune, 28 Jan. 2026
• Sorokin served about four years in prison after she was found guilty of swindling and attempting to swindle banks and hotels out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
  — NBC News, 10 Mar. 2022
• Many banks are on the brink of insolvency, in part because of pyramid schemes that swindled millions of poor Iranians.
  — The Economist, 21 Apr. 2018
• According to producers, Big Mac was swindled out of $24 million in cash and prizes.
  — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2020

swindle

2 of 2 noun

• Durand was also charged with three counts of theft by swindle.
  — Paul Walsh, Star Tribune, 8 Sep. 2020
• The conman is exposed for his swindles, and gets his just desserts, or doesn't.
  — Time Staff, Time, 22 May 2017
• The hack itself is just the first part of a modern-day ransomware swindle.
  — Thomas Brewster, Forbes, 12 May 2021
• He has also been convicted of theft by swindle and theft, both felonies.
  — Alex Chhith, Star Tribune, 12 Mar. 2021
• Ethel Reyes, 27, of Burnsville was charged with four counts of theft by swindle.
  — Christopher Magan, Twin Cities, 27 Sep. 2019
• To be sure, swindles occur all over the world, to every type of traveler.
  — Andrea Sachs, Twin Cities, 10 Aug. 2019
• Leiva Aquino is charged with two counts of aiding and abetting theft by swindle.
  — Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 5 Nov. 2025
• The only means to keep the swindle going was to force the conversation back into the script.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 2 July 2022
• Eric Heflin, 65, of Rosemount, was charged with three felony counts of theft by swindle.
  — David Chanen, Star Tribune, 25 Nov. 2020
• One of the people allegedly involved in that swindle was arrested last year.
  — Pete Grathoff, kansascity, 28 Mar. 2018
• Even victims of the swindles don't often pursue legal remedies.
  — Robert Reed, chicagotribune.com, 8 June 2017
• My own corollary is that more money has been lost reaching for tax advantages than all the stock swindles in history.
  — WSJ, 11 Apr. 2019
• Most of all, there is Harold Hill’s charismatic swindle, winning over those Iowans — and us.
  — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 1 July 2022
• But what about the cruel swindle of the slave trade, and of imperial domination?
  — Lynn Steger Strong, The New Republic, 15 Sep. 2023
• Said is charged with 10 felony counts, including theft by swindle and racketeering.
  — Chloe Rosen, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2026
• Like many a Mamet play, the book explains grifts and swindles, and exposes rampant corruption.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• To avoid being the victim of a swindle by fraudsters, senior citizens should heed the following tips.
  — Erika Pesantes, Sun-Sentinel.com, 21 June 2018
• Telco fraudsters aren’t just bugging Americans with too-good-to-be-true deals and outright swindles.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 14 June 2019
• Supporting characters add to the plot, as Chance needs help from his former crew, most of whom have gone straight but can’t resist the lure of the swindle.
  — Oline H. Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2026
• Frauds, swindles, cons, scams, and deceptions — collectively known as hoaxes.
  — Scott Neuman, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025
• The scale of the three-year swindle stunned investors, who hired lawyers in California to file long-shot lawsuits to recover losses.
  — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2021
• The internet is a global gathering of strangers and money, which means that a fraud, a trick, a swindle, a grift or a graft is obviously never far.
  — Farhad Manjoo, New York Times, 15 June 2018
• These swindles are not only highly organized but also systematized.
  — Cezary Podkul, ProPublica, 19 Sep. 2022
• Bernie Madoff was the lone mastermind behind a massive swindle that netted billions of dollars from thousands of clients.
  — Amy Haneline, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2021
• Note that these swindles are on the milder side of the criminal spectrum, with the perpetrators essentially trying to steal or squeeze money out of you.
  — Andrea Sachs, Twin Cities, 10 Aug. 2019
• The scale of Shi’s three-year swindle stunned investors, who hired lawyers in California to file long-shot lawsuits to recover losses.
  — Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2021
• After his father’s swindle was exposed in 2017, James backed out of the nomination.
  — Ian Frisch, Town & Country, 27 Oct. 2022
• According to a press release from Ellison’s office, a jury found Yusuf guilty of six counts of aiding and abetting theft by swindle.
  — Kristi Miller, Twin Cities, 12 Aug. 2025
• In 1897, they were arrested for running a swindle on a paper company in Chicago.
  — Paul Brown, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• In Caldwell’s telling, the Civil Rights Act, which banned many forms of discrimination, was a swindle.
  — Jonathan Rauch, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2020