Sentence examples for bit of a phoney from inspiring English sources
Chinese exports for July saw a rise of 12.2% up from 11.2% in June, supporting the premise that for the moment we seem to be in a bit of a phoney war.
At a certain point, as if aware things are beginning to sound like a transcript of a graduate semiotics discussion circa 1990, McCarthy pushes the tone towards irony, even parody, inviting us to see U as a bit of a phoney, or at least as a study in the hollowness of a mode of discourse that has been all too thoroughly appropriated by the corporate world.
"Well, he is sort of a phoney, isn't he?" Nixon was recorded as saying.
The four months since the Brexit vote have been something of a phoney war.
You can thank your lucky stars you weren't victim of a phoney error!
Guerrillas, calling for a boycott of a "phoney" poll, kidnapped 15 mayors and ambushed soldiers watching over the election campaign.
THE audacious takeover bid for National Westminster Bank by Bank of Scotland, its smaller Scottish rival, has had something of the air of a phoney war.
As Richard Nixon remarked in 1971, "Well, he is sort of a phoney, isn't he?"He never quite belongedNixon was too harsh.
It's getting a little hotter, but we're in something of a phoney war in Brexit Britain right now.
