Sentence examples for phony scare from inspiring English sources

You've heard a lot of phony scare talk that "Social Security's going broke".

(These phony scare stories crop up so often that it's starting to feel like a George Romero movie, where a tiny band is all that's left to fight them. But if they keep coming the whole cast's going to get picked off one by one -- and everyone will get eaten).

So it's a double-talk statistic, of an atypical event, on a phony scale, to scare you into cutting Texaco's taxes.

Mr. Bush attacked more directly, accusing his rival of making "totally false" statements about his health care proposals, using "fuzzy math" and "phony numbers," and "running on Medi scare".

This election, most of us can see that these perennial political demons are exactly like the ones dreamed up to scare Americans 50 years ago -- phony creatures made of paper mache, decorated with fake feathers and fur, attached to pulleys, and held together with glue, gaffer's tape and greed.

Phony Abortion Clinics in Canada Are Scaring Women with Lies.

Most (if not all) of the "infections" these programs detect are phony - they generate false positives in order to scare you into purchasing the (useless) software.

Scaring replied, "I think that's so phony when they do that".

Too many abstinence-only programs try to scare young people away from trying drugs by highlighting phony horror stories -- "If you use marijuana you may turn you into a homeless heroin addict".

But those producers pushed back this week in a lengthy defense of their lawsuit against their onetime publicist and confidante, Marc Thibodeau, accusing him of subterfuge and destroying "Rebecca" by scaring off the potential investor with grimly worded e-mails sent through phony Gmail accounts.

"I didn't feel scared to walk my streets and I didn't think that CompStat numbers were phony.