SHAM in a Sentence

Learn SHAM 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.

14 example sentences for SHAM, such as:

1. It was no sham sorrow, but real.
2. The elections were a complete sham.
3. It was a sham and a loathsome mockery.
4. It'll be no sham frightening, mind you.
5. The latest crime figures are a complete sham.

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 Meanings and Examples of SHAM
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sham
 v.  pretend; put on false appearance of; feign
Classic Sentence:
1  It'll be no sham frightening, mind you.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
2  There were lockers all round, and Wilson, the sham chaplain, knocked one of them in, and pulled out a dozen of brown sherry.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott"
3  The shade of the original Kurtz frequented the bedside of the hollow sham, whose fate it was to be buried presently in the mold of primeval earth.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In III
4  To-night, for the first time in my life, I saw through the hollowness, the sham, the silliness of the empty pageant in which I had always played.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7
5  It serves me right, because it was all sham; because it was all done on purpose, and not from the heart.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 35
6  It was a sham and a loathsome mockery.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
7  In spite of superficial, fantastic and sham notions of honour and dignity, all but very few of us positively grovelled before Zverkov, and the more so the more he swaggered.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: III
8  "A sham wedding," retorted another.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833
9  It was no sham sorrow, but real.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I.
10  He cried out bitterly that their crowns were stolen and their robes of glorious memories were shams.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
11  'I knew he was shamming,' said Fang, as if this were incontestable proof of the fact.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
Example Sentence:
1  The latest crime figures are a complete sham.
2  The elections were a complete sham.
3  He decided to sham sickness to get out of going to school.