Sentence examples for to hoax from inspiring English sources
noun
Anything deliberately intended to deceive or trick.
It was not good to hoax him like that".
"You're going to hoax a Moon landing by telling ten thousand scientists and engineers to keep it secret for forty years?") Tyson's rhetorical style differs dramatically from Sagan's.
When Mrs. Rogers was appealed to it was discovered that the man was not a servant but Luke Barnett of vaudeville, hired to hoax the guests.
The Facebook group was updated to claim that it was an attempt to hoax the "liberal" media after the Daily Kos and the Capital Times drew attention to the its call for armed poll watchers to identify people who signed petitions to recall Governor Walker in 2012 and who may have pending legal issues.
Fake stories of dramatic news events surrounding Earth's most-wanted terrorist are also sent out to hoax the unsuspecting.
It was Dublin Zoo that received calls related to hoax text messages that told recipients G. Raff or Anna Conda wanted to talk to them.
The Internet, of course, is no stranger to hoaxes.
Janet and Margaret, now in their 50s, admit to hoaxing some of the happenings – including the demonic voices.
The anticipation of the text message promised by the Obama campaign and the hair-trigger posture of the press did leave some vulnerable to hoaxes.
"The funding will go to a wide variety of organizations", Pichai said, describing the companies applying for the Digital News Initiative (DNI) funds as "wonderfully diverse, ranging from automated content personalization and robot journalism, to hoax-busting apps and tools to verify social media in real-time reporting".
From A-Rod to hoaxes to Lance Armstrong.
