FRAUD in a Sentence

Learn FRAUD from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

68 example sentences for FRAUD, such as:

1. He's been charged with tax fraud.
2. Tax fraud costs the country millions in lost revenue.
3. He's probably going to finish up in jail for business fraud.
4. Stock market fraud is sometimes regarded as a victimless crime.
5. The story is about theft, fraud and deceit on an incredible scale.

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 Meanings and Examples of FRAUD
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
fraud
 n.  getting money by lying or cheating; something intended to deceive
Classic Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
1  But I had quite determined that it would be a heartless fraud to take more money from my patron in the existing state of my uncertain thoughts and plans.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLVII
2  But if any fraud or treachery is practising against him, I hope that simple love and truth will be strong in the end.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 35. DEPRESSION
3  Something has been got from him by fraud, I know,' returned Traddles quietly; 'and so do you, Mr. Heep.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 52. I ASSIST AT AN EXPLOSION
4  I could not discover whether my aunt, in her last short conversation with me, had fallen on a pious fraud, or had really mistaken the state of my mind.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 62. A LIGHT SHINES ON MY WAY
5  The stupid sale of the forest, the fraud practiced upon Oblonsky and concluded in his house, exasperated him.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 17
6  That this was a trick and a fraud, of that, he thought for the first minute, there could be no doubt.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 17
7  "You little fraud," he said, clucking to the horse.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
8  "And don't forget the wastes of fraud," put in young Fisher.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 31
9  He found himself incapable of managing his slaves either by force, fear, or fraud.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
10  The holidays are part and parcel of the gross fraud, wrong, and inhumanity of slavery.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
11  I have said that this mode of treatment is a part of the whole system of fraud and inhumanity of slavery.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
12  I bent myself to devising ways and means for our escape, and meanwhile strove, on all fitting occasions, to impress them with the gross fraud and inhumanity of slavery.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
13  But I warn you, by all I hold most solemn and most sacred, that instant will have you apprehended on a charge of fraud and robbery.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
14  There have been cases before now where trainers have made sure of great sums of money by laying against their own horses, through agents, and then preventing them from winning by fraud.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze
15  He was a man of good family and of great ability, but of incurably vicious habits, who had by an ingenious system of fraud obtained huge sums of money from the leading London merchants.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott"
Example Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
16  He's probably going to finish up in jail for business fraud.
17  The charges of fraud relate to events that took place over ten years ago.
18  A researcher who claims widespread fraud involving military decorations says he warned Adm.
19  Stock market fraud is sometimes regarded as a victimless crime.
20  The story is about theft, fraud and deceit on an incredible scale.
21  Tax fraud costs the country millions in lost revenue.
22  He's been charged with tax fraud.
23  It may not be perjury, but selling stock to private investors with a prospectus like that is fraud.
24  Supporters waited outside Meshchansky Courthouse in Moscow, where Russia's richest man has been accused of fraud, embezzlement and tax evasion.
25  According to the Rambam, the Torah forbids the use of magic because it is a fraud and based on the art of deception.
26  He is naive, simple, and guileless; he cannot be guilty of fraud.
27  He received years of praise and admiration from the public that he did not deserve, and now he is exposed as a fraud.
28  Many seats were declared invalid because of violence, intimidation and electoral fraud.
29  In the wake of his allegations, the police claimed Wang had been found guilty of fraud, who had become a tool for the west to smear his homeland.
30  The truth was slightly more prosaic. A State Department official had used the FBI's “Wanted” posters in a test for passport fraud.