Sentence examples for 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.

Suspicions then led to the theory that someone had played a cruel hoax on Mr. Valentin.

But he added, "It is, in my estimation, a cruel hoax on the elderly".

At first, Ms. Greig and Mr. Christian and the station bragged about the hoax on outlets like Twitter.

Alfred Landon, the Republican who ran against Roosevelt in 1936, called it "a cruel hoax" on the American people.

The world's largest economy is governed by a president who has called global warming an "expensive hoax" on multiple occasions.

A member of the agency's staff stated that they had no one called Amanda Dowler (or anyone with the name of hoaxer) on their books.

They use celebrity hoaxes on social media to receive a windfall of clicks and money, as The Washington Post's Jessica Contrera reported in 2016.

You can also find a list of known virus-alert hoaxes on the Web sites run by anti-virus software companies like Symantec (www.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html) and McAfee (vil.mcafee.com/hoax.asp).asp

It later transpired, according to parties in the Dáil, that the "reporter" was working for the RTE comedy show Republic of Telly, which often plays hoaxes on the Irish public.