Sentence examples for hoax a from inspiring English sources
Hoax, a falsehood generally intended to fool and to entertain.
An officer nearby said the whole thing was a hoax, a crank caller pranking 911.
"The question everyone here is asking is: What hoax?" a reporter stationed in New York wrote.
It was one of the evening's biggest casualties, as was "Hoax," a 1983 collage on canvas, also by Basquiat.
Don't quit your day job: in a literary hoax, a fake agent offers book deals to the unsuspecting.
"You're going to hoax a Moon landing by telling ten thousand scientists and engineers to keep it secret for forty years?") Tyson's rhetorical style differs dramatically from Sagan's.
In Canada, military scientists investigated the question as a result of a hoax -- a letter said to contain anthrax that forced the government to close a building in Ottawa last January.
"Death of a Professor" is beautifully and economically told, in five parts, the first of which focuses on a group of unsavory college dons gathered at the Master's noontime sherry party, where they await the arrival of one of their number, Ormston, who has that morning been the victim of a hoax -- a false obituary, appearing in four newspapers.
A hoax is a hoax, of course, of course … or is it?
Is this a hoax or a true visitation from God?
