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Example sentences for: charade

How can you use “charade” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

("Why don't they just make Dick Morris the national security adviser and stop the charade?"
Cut loose from the scripted charade of the campaign beat, Elena McMahon gets caught up in the machinations of one of those male dealers in dangerous merchandise, her father, Dick McMahon.
Editorialists denounced the trial as a "charade" on several grounds: 1) He was tried by his own murderous faction instead of an international tribunal, evidently to gain credibility for the Khmer Rouge within and beyond Cambodia.
It is nothing but a charade.”
… [It] offers diabolically smart surprises wherever you care to look" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). The wild measures Ripley takes to maintain the charade cause some critics to lose interest in the second half of the film: "When Tom's aberrant qualities become more dangerous, the movie loses its moorings and drifts into a sort of highly polished, implausible melodrama" (Desson Howe, the Washington Post ). (Visit the official site.)