And you would certainly have seen that I wasshamming sleep if we hadn't both been so genuinely sleepy at the time.
Cairns watched with alternate envy and suspicion; for him there could not be a wink; but most likely the fellow was shamming all the time.
Was it real, or just shamming to make us pity you?
But I did really believe you were shamming about your memory.
It's no good shammingwith me, Vibach; I've no time for it.
And you noble wits are so full of shamming and drollery, one knows not where to have you seriously.
The conclusion is a natural one, but none the less mistaken, that the child who is discovered to be shamming has nothing the matter with it--is simply a naughty child.
One commits the murder and takes all the trouble while his accomplice lies on one side shamming a fit, apparently to arouse suspicion in every one, alarm in his master and alarm in Grigory.
And in this perfectly natural occurrence people try to detect a suspicion, a hint that he was shamming an attack on purpose.
And were you shamming all along, afterwards, and in the hospital?
But as to my being clever at shamming a fit: should I have told you beforehand that I could sham one, if I really had had such a design against your father?
She thought you were only shamming and showing off.
The sailors have a phrase of “shamming Abraham” when one of the crew shirks his duty on pretence of sickness or for any other pretended excuse.
This would manifestly be a sort ofshamming Abraham.
There will be no need of shamming this time, to deceive Macquoid.
Let us now consider an insect which, upset by a shock, perturbed by some sort of excitement, is believed to be shamming dead, lying on its back.
Here, beyond a doubt, the insect is not shamming dead.
It is shamming dead, people will tell you; it is pretending, in order to escape its enemy.
It is certain that none of them thinks of shamming dead; they are actually immersed in a deep torpor; in a word, they are hypnotized.
Indeed I'm notshamming anything," I protested as earnestly as I could, not quite knowing what his slang phrase meant, but believing it to imply that I was pretending to be ill to shirk duty when I was all right.
She must be dreadfully hungry, unless she's shamming a headache, and getting Nurse to give her bread and milk in the ambulance room.
She decided that her best course was to go on shamming somnambulism.
Because it will make us believe that you have been shamming all this time, and that you're really quite well, thank you, sir!
I begin to believe that you never have been ill, and were shamming so as to get a holiday.
On these occasions she would suffer in silence, playing possum, shamming dead, for she seemed to know that that was the best thing to do.
She had caught and killed several chickens by shamming sleep while they ventured to forage within the radius of her chain.
There had been no shamming when Theo fell under the brutal blows of the four boys who had set upon him.
Fabre does not believe in the actual shamming of death by animals.
The cunning creature was shamming death beneath the Wasp's stiletto, so artfully that I was taken in.
The shamming of death is exactly what enables the huntress to succeed in her dangerous operation.
I have watched your demeanor throughout the trial, and, although a little doubtful at first, I have come to the conclusion that you are shamming insanity.
He had lost no opportunity of circulating the suggestion that he was shamming insanity.
It must have been shamming dead all the time in order to recover its strength, as immediately it caught my eye it sprang to its feet and dashed off.
You have been shamming sick," retorted Captain Allistoun with severity; "Why.
Then what are you shamming for, and frightening us in this way?
You've almost knocked out all my teeth and more than half-choked me, and now you go shamming dead!
Foresaw everything, uncle, down to shamming an attempt upon his life so as to avert suspicion, down to shamming a wound received in your service.
And I really think she has had neither cold nor pain, but has just been shamming sickness, to keep out of my way.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shamming" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
