Example sentences for: faux-

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

  • If a middle-class Polish girl like Martha can blossom into an affected, Breck-girl faux-WASP, you can too!

  • I think what did it were those faux-Max Ernst collages with which he occasionally ornamented his stories, which appeared so much wilder than my received notion of what that magazine was like, and the stories turned out to be even wilder than the pictures.

  • It’s kitschy and cartoonish, with pink marble, neon lights, and faux-Louis XIV furniture.

  • Dept. of Faux-Groveling: Chatterbox (3/19) shouldn't have been as nasty as it was about John Broder's front page New York Times story last Thursday on Kathleen Willey's detractor, Julie Steele.

  • The early '50s, don't forget, were the heyday of the dog song, and rare was the pop star who managed to avoid having one inflicted on him: Half a century later, Frank Sinatra will sock you on the jaw if you so much as mention "Mama Will Bark," his canine love duet with the big-breasted faux-Scandinavian "actress" Dagmar.


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