Sentence examples for phony starts from inspiring English sources

My wife says, 'We travel to all these places around the world, and there's so much beauty here in the United States.' I was sitting in the front row, and the geyser made three or four phony starts and then it really blew off.

Seconds later, her students, lured outside by the phony alarm, started to fall in the path of bullets.

The years that were to end with a phony war started with a phony peace.

Prosecutors said the hospice was phony from the start, and Mr. Kirschenbaum created fake policies and fictitious board minutes that fooled state officials into granting him a license.

I think people will see it as phony that Democrats start playing by Republican rules.

The final irony may be that Ms. Stewart is so determined to label Sarah a phony that her characters start to seem like ones themselves.

The IRS in Kansas City got an order against preparer Carlos Ruano-Cruz claiming, among other things, he had told a client to start a phony business to benefit from a tax break.

As the "phony war" at the start of World War II simmered in the rest of Europe, Helsinki was bombed from Soviet bases in Estonia, which with Lithuania and Latvia was annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940.

"It was a phony coalition when it was started, and it's a phony coalition now," said Martin A. Corry, director of federal affairs for the AARP.

These polls are so skewed, so phony, that we need to start paying attention to what's going on so that you won't be deflated".

"There are already so many layers of disguise in this piece that if you start acting really phony, it's like, 'What are we even watching?' " Mr. Morris said.