Sentence examples for like a sham from inspiring English sources
"It is like a play, it is like a sham.
The deal looks like a sham now that the roaring bull market has run its course.
Dictatorships of the past ruined the country, and democracy seems like a sham.
The Daily News explains why this makes the N.F.L.'s drug testing system look like a sham.
"Now that he's signed a contract, this whole bankruptcy thing looks like a sham to me," said Pat Bowlen, the Broncos' owner.
They have waited and waited and finally have been given what, shrouded by their veil of tears, looks to them like a sham".
I left the museum feeling both elated and like it was a sham.
Opposition parties are marginalised; elections are like televised wrestling, a sham contest between carefully vetted contestants.
The U.S. wields such inordinate power, particularly in small, dependent allies like Honduras, that pretending that we are just another interested neighbor during a crisis feels like (and is) a sham.
The blog critics are like "Beca is a sham.
Failing to see this, or perhaps willfully ignoring it, politicians like Palin push a sham on Americans that only allows the government -- the shadow one -- to get bigger and bigger and to deplete traditional government of the personnel, information, expertise, and institutional memory it needs to function.
