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How to use the word gullible in a Sentence?

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What concerns me, sir, is that you were gullible enough to come to Washington, DC, from Florida based on a lie.

Senior District Judge Reggie Walton

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The Philippines is immediately ordering the Bureau of Immigration to deny US Senators Dick Durbin and Patrick Leahy the imperious, uninformed, and gullible American legislators who introduced the subject provisions into the 2020 budget entry to the Philippines.

Salvador Panelo

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Your children’s children will live under communism. You Americans are so gullible. No, you won’t accept Communism outright, but we’ll keep feeding you small doses of Socialism until you will finally wake up and find that you already have Communism. We won’t have to fight you; We’ll so weaken your economy, until you fall like overripe fruit into our hands.

Nikita Khrushchev

added by Normando
4 years ago

Just as this week's 'tactical weapon' test was a signal to warn Trump that his much-vaunted 'freeze' is in jeopardy, the verbal attack on Pompeo is meant to encourage Trump to ignore his hardline advisers and make a deal with his 'friend' Kim Jong Un, as long as the North Koreans believe they can flatter and dupe the U.S. president into making important concessions ... they will resist dealing with less gullible and more demanding subordinate U.S. officials.

Daniel Russel

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We are gullible, and we like myths; we like stories, and there is one. And if your sex life is important, and you believe that there is this potion, you think, 'Well, why not give it a go?'.

David Attenborough

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This has become an extortion racket. They are preying on gullible people, these brokers have spread everywhere, in the villages, in towns. They are like veins in your body.

Mohammad Abuzar Al Zahid

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Gods and politics are the tools with which the godless and unprincipled manipulate the gullible.

Janet Morris

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Perhaps I am still very much of an American. That is to say, na?ve, optimistic, gullible. In the eyes of a European, what am I but an American to the core, an American who exposes his Americanism like a sore. Like it or not, I am a product of this land of plenty, a believer in superabundance, a believer in miracles.

Henry Miller

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Fame is proof that people are gullible.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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