Sentence examples for in a phoney from inspiring English sources

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We are in a phoney war.

What is it that makes women highlight their flaws in a phoney sorority pity party that never rings true?

If anyone had mentioned wafer-thin mints in a phoney French accent, I wouldn't have thought it funny.

As a result, we've wasted a quarter century in a phoney argument about whether the climate was changing.

If anyone had mentioned wafer-thin mints in a phoney French accent, I wouldn't have thought it funny.

He was lured into a trap, leaving his forest hideout in a phoney ambulance on his way, he thought, to have a cataract operation.

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It's getting a little hotter, but we're in something of a phoney war in Brexit Britain right now.

With Asia growing rapidly richer (and its population waking up to the joys of credit cards, mortgages and the like), and with growth in their own economies difficult to come by, big banks from rich countries want to expand in the region.In this section A phoney recovery Risky business?

Last year it made €21.7m ($27.2m) in pre-tax profits.In this section A phoney recovery Risky business?

Those first few days seem in retrospect like a phoney war.

Thanks to a strong stockmarket, booming exports of services, and high interest rates, foreign currency has poured in.In this section A phoney recovery Risky business?

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