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Example sentences for "fake"

Lexicographically close words:
faiths; faits; faitz; faix; faja; faked; fakeer; faker; fakers; fakes
  1. If the star didn't fall, it would tend to prove that it was, as Godfrey had said, merely a fake arranged to impress a credulous old man; but suppose it did fall!

  2. I wish I could persuade that fellow to show me how the fake was worked, for it was certainly a good one--one of the best.

  3. We can send code to Tellus easily enough on our ultrawave, and we may be able to fake up something on vision.

  4. The transmit seemed to be working, and he was getting out everything he knew--the location of the Hind, the fake nationality, the attack on the frigate.

  5. He told Laguerre that the original charter of the company had been tampered with, and that the one Laguerre submitted to him was a fake copy.

  6. Of course, the understanding is that if the leader of the fake revolution gets in he'll give his New York backers whatever they're after.

  7. As they parleyed hastily, the rough-neck and the fake chauffeur lifted Elaine out of the taxi.

  8. Such an elaborate business--just to get me where they could fake this thing.

  9. As the forger did not adopt a device so easy, so obvious, and so difficult of detection, (if he purchased Scottish flint implements) his aim was not to fake a Neolithic site.

  10. The forger himself is, I think, far too knowing a man to fake inscriptions on fresh shells, even if, not being a conchologist, he did not know that the oysters were American blue points.

  11. Again and again he sought to struggle up, but Fake and Fraud pulled him back and held him.

  12. Then both favorites uttered exclamations of seeming surprise and merriment, while the triumphant Fake held the extracted set of teeth above her head.

  13. Fake and Fraud were not inclined to keep still long.

  14. At this juncture, Fake threw her arms round the professor.

  15. There’s no fake about Harvey Brill; anyone could tell that.

  16. I guess there’s no fake about it this time,” said Paxton.

  17. We have the fake witch, like the hoax ghost; the imputed witch and the genuine article.

  18. His Unquiet Ghost[75] is a delightful story of a fake burial to evade the revenue officials.

  19. It was too much of a temptation for Blount and his jumpers, and blackleg lawyers with fake claims.

  20. Didn't he send her as his messenger, to make a fake payment that would have deprived her and her mother of their rights?

  21. He held out the instrument and Blount seized it roughly, for he had heard of fake telephone messages before, but when he listened he recognized the voice.

  22. The memory, perhaps, of a fake letter to Samuel Houghton gave color to his indifference, and for the first time in his life he gazed at her with a shadow of disapproval.

  23. He is sure you are all right in Alexandria, because the Evershams received another fake telegram from you from Alexandria.

  24. That Turkish fellow could hardly fake that letter to them, could he?

  25. Might be a blacksmith for all you can tell--probably a fake name.

  26. I mean did you take that clock away for a joke, and then, when you got caught, made up that fake story about chasing me?

  27. Well, then why was it necessary to fake the second one?

  28. Sothran, any reports from any of the cars that were chasing that fake police car?

  29. Then there was a juggler, and Montana Kate, who wore buckskin leggins and did a fake rifle-shootin' act.

  30. Say, I put all the ginger and cheerfulness I could fake up into that lie.

  31. They'd even gone so far as to try to hire a couple of fake Zulus from a museum to come up and sing the moonrise song; so's Vally wouldn't be bothered about goin' to sleep night.

  32. Sir Hunter was a little late for dinner, but he shows up two eyed before the girl, makes a hit with her folks, and has engaged Snick to give him private lessons on how to make a fake optic behave like the real goods.

  33. I recall the case of a Russian girl thus decoyed into a disreputable life by a man deceiving her through a fake marriage ceremony.

  34. Only last year a Russian girl came to Chicago to meet her lover and was deceived by a fake marriage.

  35. Just as I was about to tell them that it was a fake pure and simple, I happened to glance towards my office, and Holy Smoke!

  36. The Military Operator--A Fake Report that Nearly Caused Trouble 192 XXII.

  37. Generally they didn't get up until eight o'clock and by that time I would have destroyed the fake report.

  38. There were no more "fake reports" from that office.

  39. Tne Vitae-Ore "editorial" appears by virtue of a full-page advertisement of this extraordinary fake in the same issue.

  40. Another Chicago newspaper compelled its political editor to tout for fake indorsements of a nostrum.

  41. Fake is also a mixture supposed to be used for purposes of "making safe.

  42. Fake poetry, the decay of poetry, corresponds exactly with fake magic, the decay of true magic.

  43. Then the Fake Poet is, as you have hinted before, a sort of Hermit Crab?

  44. Mere verse, as an earlier section has attempted to show, is neither bad poetry nor fake poetry necessarily.

  45. The attempt to do this is one of the chief symptoms of the fake poet; ignorance forces him to draw on the experience of a real poet who actually has been through the emotional crises which he himself wants to restate.

  46. Between verse, bad poetry and fake poetry, there is a great distinction.

  47. The triumph of the analytic spirit is nowhere better shown than in these histories of Poetry just mentioned, where the interest in fake poetry is just as strong or even stronger than the interest in poetry itself.

  48. There is a great deal of difference between fake poetry and ordinary bad poetry.

  49. The one fake thing about this whole proposition,” Jimmie said as the boys landed in New York, sunburned and happy, “is that alleged Mystery of the Andes!

  50. Even against the big, alert fellows from Cobber that fake kick was good for eight yards.

  51. That same old ruse of dashing around the left end; then a fake kick and a dashing race by Stearns.

  52. Now Badger called out the same signal that had been used for that most effective fake kick.

  53. Clearly, Gridley's fake kick tactics were all of the real thing.

  54. It was a fake kick, and a royally good one.

  55. And when the sucker gets home he goes around winking and hinting, and so the fake grows.

  56. A fake forward by Linthicum, standing well back of the line, the ball to Ned instead, a moment of delay and concealment, and then a lightning dash inside tackle on the right.

  57. A fake attack to the left, with left half running to the right took the ball to the center of the field, although for no gain.

  58. A desperate fake kick, with Harmon taking the pigskin around left end, had lost the ball on the nineteen.

  59. All others are fakes, and I can fake as well as anybody.


  60. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fake" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.