SHAM in a Sentence
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14 example sentences for SHAM, such as:
1. It was no sham sorrow, but real.
2. The elections were a complete sham.
3. It was a sham and a loathsome mockery.
4. It'll be no sham frightening, mind you.
5. The latest crime figures are a complete sham.
2. The elections were a complete sham.
3. It was a sham and a loathsome mockery.
4. It'll be no sham frightening, mind you.
5. The latest crime figures are a complete sham.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of SHAM
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sham
v. pretend; put on false appearance of; feign
Classic Sentence:
1 It'll be no sham frightening, mind you.
2 There were lockers all round, and Wilson, the sham chaplain, knocked one of them in, and pulled out a dozen of brown sherry.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott"
Context Highlight In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott"
3 The shade of the original Kurtz frequented the bedside of the hollow sham, whose fate it was to be buried presently in the mold of primeval earth.
4 To-night, for the first time in my life, I saw through the hollowness, the sham, the silliness of the empty pageant in which I had always played.
5 It serves me right, because it was all sham; because it was all done on purpose, and not from the heart.
6 It was a sham and a loathsome mockery.
7 In spite of superficial, fantastic and sham notions of honour and dignity, all but very few of us positively grovelled before Zverkov, and the more so the more he swaggered.
8 "A sham wedding," retorted another.
9 It was no sham sorrow, but real.
10 He cried out bitterly that their crowns were stolen and their robes of glorious memories were shams.
11 'I knew he was shamming,' said Fang, as if this were incontestable proof of the fact.
Example Sentence:
1 The latest crime figures are a complete sham.
2 The elections were a complete sham.
3 He decided to sham sickness to get out of going to school.