Sentence examples for charade at from inspiring English sources

There are practical reasons for avoiding this inevitable charade – at least for now.

But his sincerity seemed a charade at best, and a failure at worst, and his crackdowns against militant and extremist groups were halfhearted and unsuccessful.

Moran is adamant that there are no "happy hookers"; there are only those who survive that charade, at crippling psychological cost.

Acting out the lives of the adults they disdain (a charade at which Andrew Kober, Theo Stockman and Megan Lawrence are particularly expert) becomes a cathartic ritual.

"It is clear that we have no knight in shining armour to end the charade at St James' Park so we must look at how we can do this ourselves.

Or, is the Starbucks-sponsored "10 Summer Emojis That Should Definitely Exist" no charade at all, but actually the future of media that we should just smile and accept?

Peter Pan creator JM Barrie loved dabbling in imaginary worlds and always played charades at house parties he hosted.

Although most people tend only to play charades at Christmas, like eating turkey, many wonder why they don't do it more often.

The friend happened to be in showbusiness and they decided to play charades at the end of the evening.

Keeping the volume up at the club is fine, but if we have to perform charades at a regular watering hole one more time just to get the bill, it will probably lead to a sudden reenactment of Charles Bronson's Death Wish.

But this dream life was ill-suited to the arts and crafts of ruling over a society that at best was apt to find this charade amusing, at worst an insult.