IMPOSTOR in a Sentence

Learn IMPOSTOR 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.

Example sentences for IMPOSTOR, such as:

1. I am not a hero to you now, as I tried to seem before, but simply a nasty person, an impostor.
2. Some Sarah Palin impostor somehow got access to Sarah Palin's Facebook page and posted the bizarre comments.
3. I had never been struck at so keenly, for my thanklessness to Joe, as through the brazen impostor Pumblechook.

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 Meanings and Examples of IMPOSTOR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
impostor
 n.  someone who assumes a false identity
Classic Sentence:
1  I am not a hero to you now, as I tried to seem before, but simply a nasty person, an impostor.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: IV
2  The Russian Emperor's aide-de-camp is an impostor.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIV
3  I had never been struck at so keenly, for my thanklessness to Joe, as through the brazen impostor Pumblechook.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LII
4  Notwithstanding this man was held in very unequal estimation among the Hurons, some believing implicitly in his power, and others deeming him an impostor, he was now listened to by all with the deepest attention.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27
5  "We shall be much obliged to you," said the impostors, and then they named the different colors and described the pattern of the pretended stuff.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES
Example Sentence:
1  Some Sarah Palin impostor somehow got access to Sarah Palin's Facebook page and posted the bizarre comments.
2  He is the thinnest kind of an impostor -- has come here with a lot of empty names and facts which he picked up somewheres, and you take them for PROOFS, and are helped to fool yourselves by these foolish friends here, who ought to know better.