Examples of paper tiger in a Sentence
The new laws are just paper tigers without any method of enforcement.
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Iran’s leadership felt compelled to strike Israel in order to reiterate its position as a regional powerhouse and to dispel notions of it as a paper tiger.
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Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 14 Apr. 2024
When Southern school districts ignored Brown and refused to integrate, the Court was in danger of being exposed as a paper tiger.
—Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
These left-wing TV buffoons are just paper tigers staging a new version of their favorite hoax — a petulant insurrection.
—Armond White, National Review, 29 Mar. 2024
Putin intended to expose the United States as a paper tiger outside Western Europe and to demonstrate that Russia, along with China, was destined for a leadership role in a new, multipolar international order.
—Liana Fix, Foreign Affairs, 20 Dec. 2022
The hollow threat by Trump, and his clownish statements about his love fest served, at best, to diminish the reputation of the U.S. around the world and, at worst, to signal that the U.S. was only a paper tiger, inviting North Korea’s further nuclear development.
—Marty Judge Community Voices Contributor, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2020
The result is a contentious, stalled mess, and the ESA, which wields the legal force of a thousand-pound gorilla, is ecologically about as effective as a paper tiger.
—Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 26 Apr. 2011
The limited-edition ID.R Buggy built by Karmann turned out to be another paper tiger.
—Georg Kacher, Car and Driver, 10 Nov. 2022
Rather than accepting the consequences of divided government and negotiating, some Democrats preferred to fantasize over an idea that would expose the United States as politically dysfunctional and a financial paper tiger.
—Isaac Schorr, National Review, 28 Sep. 2020
Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 14 Apr. 2024
When Southern school districts ignored Brown and refused to integrate, the Court was in danger of being exposed as a paper tiger.
—Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
These left-wing TV buffoons are just paper tigers staging a new version of their favorite hoax — a petulant insurrection.
—Armond White, National Review, 29 Mar. 2024
Putin intended to expose the United States as a paper tiger outside Western Europe and to demonstrate that Russia, along with China, was destined for a leadership role in a new, multipolar international order.
—Liana Fix, Foreign Affairs, 20 Dec. 2022
The hollow threat by Trump, and his clownish statements about his love fest served, at best, to diminish the reputation of the U.S. around the world and, at worst, to signal that the U.S. was only a paper tiger, inviting North Korea’s further nuclear development.
—Marty Judge Community Voices Contributor, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2020
The result is a contentious, stalled mess, and the ESA, which wields the legal force of a thousand-pound gorilla, is ecologically about as effective as a paper tiger.
—Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 26 Apr. 2011
The limited-edition ID.R Buggy built by Karmann turned out to be another paper tiger.
—Georg Kacher, Car and Driver, 10 Nov. 2022
Rather than accepting the consequences of divided government and negotiating, some Democrats preferred to fantasize over an idea that would expose the United States as politically dysfunctional and a financial paper tiger.
—Isaac Schorr, National Review, 28 Sep. 2020
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“Paper tiger.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/paper%20tiger. Accessed 27 Apr. 2024.
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