How do you use Fleeced in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Fleeced meaning
simple past and past participle of fleece
Using Fleeced
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of fleece
- In the example corpus, fleeced often appears in combinations such as: fleeced by, he fleeced, get fleeced.
Context around Fleeced
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 7 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 13 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Fleeced
- In this selection, "fleeced" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, get, accountant, merseysiders, down, barcelona and off stand out and add context to how "fleeced" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include an accountant fleeced more than and and heavily fleeced sheep are. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "fleeced" sits close to words such as aaronson, abai and abass, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with fleeced
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The Knicks got fleeced in that one, too. (8 words)
They can imagine being fleeced by the Government on their deathbeds. (11 words)
He is fleeced off the very basic rights in his own home country. (13 words)
According to reports reaching iHarare, Maxwell Mutandwa (35) was recently hauled to court facing charges of extortion after he allegedly fleeced his wife’s lover Wadzanai Manyika (43) who lived at the same house. (34 words)
The rise of digital payments technology has sped up the process of paying and getting paid for businesses across the globe - and it's also boosted the number of ways they can get fleeced. (34 words)
Israel’s binary options industry, which was outlawed by the Knesset in October 2017, was estimated to employ thousands of Israelis and to steal some $10 billion a year from fleeced “investors” worldwide. (33 words)
Example sentences (13)
Most striking was his nonchalance, evident from the first ball that he fleeced down the ground for a four off speedster Gerald Coetzee.
An accountant fleeced more than £763,000 from his victims and worked alongside them to prolong the cover-up.
Nothing will ever match the £142m the Merseysiders fleeced Barcelona for wantaway Philippe Coutinho, before the Nou Camp megaflop returned to Anfield for one night only to suffer a 4-0 thrashing.
Simply put, it’s easy to get fleeced by fine print that ties the hands of creators and owners for years to come.
They can imagine being fleeced by the Government on their deathbeds.
The Knicks got fleeced in that one, too.
This comes after he pleaded guilty on Thursday to an Internet fraud scheme wherein he fleeced his unsuspecting victims of close to $11m.
According to reports reaching iHarare, Maxwell Mutandwa (35) was recently hauled to court facing charges of extortion after he allegedly fleeced his wife’s lover Wadzanai Manyika (43) who lived at the same house.
He is fleeced off the very basic rights in his own home country.
Israel’s binary options industry, which was outlawed by the Knesset in October 2017, was estimated to employ thousands of Israelis and to steal some $10 billion a year from fleeced “investors” worldwide.
The rise of digital payments technology has sped up the process of paying and getting paid for businesses across the globe - and it's also boosted the number of ways they can get fleeced.
Calves and heavily fleeced sheep are killed by attacking the flanks or hindquarters, causing shock and blood loss.
However, Lawrence Wright claims bin Laden was almost completely broke at this time, cut off from his family income, and fleeced by the Sudanese.
Common combinations with fleeced
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- fleeced by 3×
- he fleeced 2×
- get fleeced 2×
- fleeced his 2×