Example sentences for: shilling

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

  • A story exposes the undercover shilling of many Hollywood stars.

  • Part of the answer lies in the spell-as-you-like nature of our language at a time when Johnson's dictionary was still a novelty, though while some of his variant spellings of shilling , for example, are typical of the English of the day, much of Casanova's spelling would look more at home in a Chaucerian text than one from the Age of Englishtenment.

  • A shilling coin was called a bob .

  • "Is it true you said of James Barksdale and Marc Andreessen, in an inexplicably British locution, 'I don't ever want to hear that those c**ts earned one sodding shilling off their bloody browser'?"

  • Last week, the Wall Street Journal editorial page accused Salon of shilling for President Clinton.


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