Example sentences for: potemkin

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

  • But for now, Putin and his generals will get their victory --a Potemkin triumph for a Potemkin army.

  • Were the faux-neighborliness and picture-perfectness a hint that he considers the planned community, with its gingerbread cottages and white-picket fences and Yale-trained architects and grand terminology ("The New Urbanism") and grander utopian ideals, a Potemkin Village?

  • Underlying theme: Moscow is a Potemkin village of prosperity, and the rest of Russia is dying.

  • A related piece says the scandal has paralyzed daily life in the administration: Nothing gets done in the "Potemkin White House."

  • Potemkin Villages


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