Example sentences for: feints

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

  • "Corny card tricks and coin feints and levitation stunts [updated] with post-grunge chic," declares Time 's David Handelman, adding that "Blaine's best magic trick may be his own career."

  • The burden of resisting these feints will fall partly on Minority Leader Tom Daschle but principally on McCain--who, as a Vietnam POW, survived torture in the Hanoi Hilton.

  • Schoenfeld has an answer to that, and it is a well-known one, having first been set forth in another Commentary essay in 1981 by the great Biblical scholar Robert Alter: The danger with Holocaust Studies is that, in the proliferation of methodologies and agendas, the incomprehensible horror of the event may be lost--eclipsed, as humanity of the Jews was eclipsed, by a fog of categories and subcategories and rhetorical feints at ideological opponents.


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