Example sentences for: trumped-up

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

  • (A new book maintains that even Christmas is a trumped-up holiday.

  • It's hard to buy the trumped-up scene where the principal--another myopic patriarch--warns Dern not to give her students "false hopes" (although this does give Dern a chance to do her rubber lips specialty, gazing at the principal in wordless horror while her mouth continually reforms itself like some strange Gumby creature).

  • The old town of cobbled streets is dominated by the 17th-century town hall, home of the Távora family until the Marquês de Pombal had them all executed on a trumped-up charge of treason.

  • Will you stand up to an official who can put you at significant risk of conviction with a trumped-up case?

  • The cover story recounts the story of a black World War II hero later refused re-enlistment by the Army because of trumped-up charges of Communist activity.


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