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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.