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:

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

  • The English queen kept her cousin in captivity for 20 years and finally had her beheaded on a trumped-up charge of treason.

  • Gigot thinks the tax fraud proceedings against Hubbell are legitimate and ordinary, while everyone else regards the indictments as trumped-up mini-crimes meant to squeeze Hubbell into giving Starr what he wants--cooperation.

  • It appeared in 1886, eight years before Captain Alfred Dreyfus, an Alsatian Jew in the French Army, was arrested on what proved to be trumped-up charges of spying for the Germans.

  • 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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