FEINT in a Sentence
Learn FEINT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
Example sentences for FEINT, such as:
1. The boxer was fooled by his opponent's feint and dropped his guard.
2. Young as he was, however, he had sense enough to make a feint of feeling great regret at going away.
2. Young as he was, however, he had sense enough to make a feint of feeling great regret at going away.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of FEINT
Definitions: Search Google Search M.Webster
feint
n. trick; any distracting or deceptive maneuver
Classic Sentence:
1 I acted in the capacity of backer, or best-man, to the bridegroom; while a little limp pew-opener in a soft bonnet like a baby's, made a feint of being the bosom friend of Miss Skiffins.
2 I recollect being very much surprised by the feint everybody made, then, of not having been to sleep at all, and by the uncommon indignation with which everyone repelled the charge.
3 The attack on Hougomont was something of a feint; the plan was to draw Wellington thither, and to make him swerve to the left.
4 They placed themselves on guard; the stranger made a feint and a lunge, and that so rapidly that when Monsieur Porthos came to the PARADE, he had already three inches of steel in his breast.
5 Young as he was, however, he had sense enough to make a feint of feeling great regret at going away.
6 For he never means to swallow a single limb; he only thinks to terrify by feints.
7 The king and the cardinal are the best of friends; their apparent bickerings are only feints to deceive fools.
Example Sentence:
1 The boxer was fooled by his opponent's feint and dropped his guard.