Example sentences for: phony

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

  • We are witnessing one of the first fake battles of what the Progressive Policy Institute's Will Marshall calls "the phony war" of the campaign.

  • 2) Clinton has the rhetorical grace to pull off such an apology in a way that doesn't seem phony (he'll blame it on his own big heart, his fierce desire not to hurt wife and child).

  • Even at the corners of the mouth, the phony smile betrays itself by being subtly lopsided: Involuntary expressions, arising in the lower, unitary brain, affect both sides of the mouth equally, but willed expressions are governed by the cerebral hemispheres, the dominant of which sends a stronger signal.

  • What a load of phony differences without distinctions!

  • It began with a point I made about urban sprawl--how when you drive across the country, you realize the issue is to a large degree phony.


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