Sentence examples for through a phony from inspiring English sources

He escapes to the fictional Eastern European capital of Prava and, through a phony investment scheme, begins fleecing its young, moneyed expatriates with self-actualizing zeal.

(a) Dollars' worth of merchandise that the former Bush domestic-policy adviser Claude Allen was alleged to have stolen from Target and other stores through a phony refund scam.

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Cynthia Ulfig sentenced Dykstra after refusing to allow him to withdraw his plea and said a scam to lease high-end automobiles from dealerships by providing fraudulent information and claiming credit through a phony business showed sophistication and extensive planning.

When President Obama was pitching his health plan, congressional representatives went on television, words flowing off their forked tongues, like "What the people of America want is... yadda yadda " Well, I'm one of the "people of America" and they certainly don't know what I want, even though I keep trying to tell them, really tell them, and not through a phony poll.

One problem is that Kanfer merely scratches the surface in telling Bogart's life (tell me one more time that Bogie "could spot a phony through lead walls" and I swear…).

What a phony.

Was Paterno a phony?

You're a phony.

I mean, what a phony.

This is a phony issue.

Sarah, you are a phony".