Sentence examples for a hoax on from inspiring English sources

He was charged--along with Jerry Scott Miller, a former Los Angeles Police officer and his one-time partner in Metropolitan--with perpetrating a hoax on the Mohave County Sheriff's office by claiming that the offices were wiretapped.

The Oklahoma Republican has repeatedly dismissed climate change as a "hoax" on the Senate floor, and takes pride in his role as one of the country's most outspoken climate change deniers.

"If it's a hoax, it's a hoax on me," Mr. Hunter, 34, who works at a bodega in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, said in a telephone interview.

Some researchers have claimed that another man, not Dillinger, was killed outside the Biograph and that Dillinger's allies accomplished a hoax on the FBI, leaving him free to disappear.

On February 7 , 1910 Woolf and three other members of the emerging Bloomsbury group, including Woolf's brother Adrian Stephen, played a hoax on the famed British battleship H.M.S. Dreadnought by impersonating the emperor of Abyssinia and his retinue.

On thetruthaboutlochness.com, Greg Atkins, who is identified as a fired prop man from a Herzog documentary called "Enigma at Loch Ness," writes that Mr. Penn is trying to put over a hoax on Mr. Herzog.

Lori Drew, a Missouri woman involved in a MySpace hoax on a 13-year-old neighbor girl who committed suicide, should be placed on probation for one year and fined $5,000 for her misdemeanor convictions, probation officials recommended.

The 41-year-old Levesque, who's been released on bail, is charged with perpetrating a terrorist hoax on a Facebook page in posts touting the "benefits" of the FLQ and threatening to "make bombs explode" again -- just like the bombings the radical separatist group detonated in Quebec province in the 1960's.

Mr. Vrdolyak's bloc on the Council said that the compromise with Mr. Natarus was a hoax based on false revenue estimates and that property owners would never see the promised abatement.

Perhaps it's a hoax - on Twitter, Chris Power (of this parish) points out that the url looks dodgy.

After lengthy appeals, the federal courts deemed the kidnapping a hoax, and on Nov. 25, 1959, he was released.