How to Use fake in a Sentence

fake

1 of 3 adjective

• That blood is clearly fake.
• He was wearing a fake mustache.
• Midway through the song, fake snow even fell across the stage.
  — Brian Anthony Hernandez, Peoplemag, 17 Dec. 2023
• The fake boobs were a way to connect with—and help— survivors.
  — Rae Witte, Women's Health, 21 July 2023
• The Pope got in on the joke and thew a fake jab himself, much to Stallone’s amusement.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 8 Sep. 2023
• The snapshot showed that the fake document was filled with jokes.
  — Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 12 Jan. 2024
• This is a fake render, and the real screen does not seem to ever be this crisp.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 10 Nov. 2023
• The same test was performed on the high setting, with the addition of the bag of fake pet hair being added.
  — Alida Nugent, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Jan. 2024
• So spare us any new fake sense of urgency on the border.
  — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 6 Oct. 2023
• The sentence comes after the duo was found guilty of using a fake gun to try to make off with the Italian sports car.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 12 Jan. 2024
• They were found to be made up and had fake judicial wording.
  — Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 29 May 2023
• Trending Like the fake sweater videos, this has all been recorded on Whitney’s phone.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 24 Nov. 2023
• The drive appeared to stall near midfield, but Marsh ran a fake punt for 29 yards, giving the Panthers new life at the Belleville 24.
  — Wright Wilson, Detroit Free Press, 26 Aug. 2023
• Anything you’re shown now can be dismissed as fake news.
  — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
• But the technology isn’t a magic cure for the spread of fake AI images.
  — Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2024
• Ryan had checked into the motel using an alias and a fake address.
  — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2023
• The point of the fake prize offer and text is simply to get your credit card information, the FTC said.
  — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 8 June 2023
• Even Trump’s own campaign released a fake mug shot T-shirt to raise money.
  — Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 25 Aug. 2023
• One of the fake accounts belonged to a fictional 13-year-old girl named Issa Bee.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 12 Mar. 2024
• Hence the classic materials like tweed, fake fur and pearls.
  — Luke Leitch, Vogue, 2 Mar. 2024
• It can be used to make fake images of real people, called deepsfakes.
  — Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 2 June 2023
• There was a fake eyeball in the left socket and about a half-dozen original teeth still attached, but the jaw was missing.
  — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
• Bartee, who is Black, posed as a White man by using a fake name and fake profile to lure the men to his apartment, Baeder said.
  — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Sep. 2023
• Kids have drawn beautiful fake tattoos on my bald head.
  — Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 27 June 2023
• The image of Renée on a pay phone with fake rain and a [crane-like] condor lighting up the sky is burned in my brain as the beginning of everything.
  — Joanna Calo, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2023
• Buying tickets outside the venue can be a surefire way to waste your money on a fake ticket.
  — Kara Nesvig, Rolling Stone, 7 July 2023
• And thank you for including me, your fake mom who left you home alone not once but twice, to share in this happy occasion.
  — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 4 Dec. 2023
• Ocean researchers give us an inside look at what a great white shark feeding frenzy looks like from the inside of a fake life-size whale.
  — Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
• Investment returns that seem too good to be true are almost always just that – fake.
  — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 4 Apr. 2024
• Earthquake threatened severe aftershocks that would cause a book to fall gently off a shelf while the eclipse hopes fake eclipse glasses will cause eye damage.
  — Omar L. Gallaga, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2024

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fake

2 of 3 noun

• The first fake came on the first series of the game from their own 20 on fourth-and-10.
  — Ben Thomas | [e-mail], al, 25 Aug. 2023
• The people trying to sell us fakes tend to come in at the end of the day.
  — Ronald D. White, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• The photo of Kate and William in the car was also a fake.
  — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 14 Mar. 2024
• By the next day, the buyer realized the phone was a fake.
  — Kimberly Fornek, chicagotribune.com, 30 Dec. 2020
• The sell from Wilcox and the fake from Burrow, cause the linebackers and safeties to step forward.
  — Lance Reisland, cleveland, 14 Jan. 2023
• The fakes have a strong alcohol or a strong glue smell.
  — Ronald D. White, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• Those fakes opened my eyes to the bona fide world of synthetics.
  — Irv Erdos, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Nov. 2023
• Texas became the first state in 2019 to outlaw deep fakes.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 19 Jan. 2024
• All three of these erroneous features were present in some of the fakes.
  — Jordan Michael Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2024
• Dupe culture leans into a sort of pride that embraces the fake.
  — Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2023
• Prior to the fake, the two teams combined for five punts and a missed field goal in the first quarter of a scoreless game.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 9 Oct. 2022
• The punt safe unit has one job: to prevent a potential fake.
  — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 26 Sep. 2022
• But what many presumed to be a fake turned out to be a genuine likeness.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2023
• Only Murray didn’t bite on the fake, swatting the ball away with his left hand.
  — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 15 Feb. 2024
• Goose’s wife’s death, mentioned in passing, was a fake.
  — al, 20 July 2022
• The Cowboys have not run a fake on special teams all season.
  — Dallas News, 16 Jan. 2023
• The Starting Line’s signature song starts as a fake-out.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 2 Mar. 2022
• The first time would have been a 41-yarder, but holder Tommy Townsend caught the snap and ran left, looking to pass for the first down on a fake.
  — Wilson Moore, The Indianapolis Star, 26 Sep. 2022
• Now an expert panel in France wants to destroy it as a fake.
  — New York Times, 6 July 2022
• This Biden story might briefly fool a reader, though is soon revealed to be a fake.
  — James Vincent, The Verge, 2 May 2023
• However, not all is lost, and the fossil is not a complete fake.
  — David Bressan, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
• Tweets can be deleted, of course, but even noted fact-checker Daniel Dale called the tweet out as a fake.
  — Jay R. Jordan, Chron, 19 Feb. 2021
• Robert Quinn recognized the fake to Stewart but were late.
  — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 26 Sep. 2022
• Young took four dribbles and gave Brown just enough of a shoulder fake to keep him off balance.
  — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Apr. 2023
• But Solana isn’t in charge of actually taking down the fakes.
  — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 3 Jan. 2024
• Facing a quick three-and-out, Buchner was tasked with punting the ball away but saw a crease and took off for the first down on a fake.
  — Nick Alvarez | [e-mail], al, 26 Jan. 2023
• The most egregious miss was Marcus Nguyen on a breakaway putting the puck across the face after getting Palmer down with a fake.
  — Dylan Bumbarger, oregonlive, 8 Mar. 2022
• The ad was instead a fake that used a clever trick to disguise its malicious intent.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 4 Sep. 2023
• The more photos of someone’s face available, the more realistic the deep fake.
  — Teresa Huizar, Sun Sentinel, 1 Jan. 2024
• However, comments on many of the more modern-looking posts reveal that many viewers don’t perceive these as fakes.
  — Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo, Quartz, 4 Mar. 2024

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fake

3 of 3 verb

• Bertuzzi cut to the net, faked wide and drove home the puck for his fourth goal of the season.
  — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 1 Mar. 2023
• On a third-and-6, Cincinnati will fake a quick screen to Chase.
  — Lance Reisland, cleveland, 28 Jan. 2023
• On 3rd-and-goal from the 6, Billingsley took a shotgun snap and faked a handoff.
  — Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Aug. 2023
• Perhaps this is part of the goal, the crook shot, the pop music is the base that fakes us all together.
  — Lawrence Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
• While the game was still in doubt in the first half, St. Michael faked a pair of punts and went for it on two other fourth-down plays.
  — Ben Thomas | [e-mail], al, 25 Aug. 2023
• Mac Jones faked a handoff, rolled to his right, and threw a 6-yard score to Hunter Henry.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2023
• The play called for the quarterback to pretend to take the snap, turn and fake a hand-off to one of his running backs.
  — Dallas News, 18 Aug. 2022
• The series is based on the shocking true story of a British MP who tried—and failed—to fake his own death in 1974.
  — Ana Osorno, Town & Country, 5 Feb. 2023
• Instead, Sherwood warned the filmmaker, and the two teamed up to fake his death.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2023
• And the Ginza, too, faked its whereabouts last fall, pretending to be off the coast of Oman.
  — David Botti, New York Times, 30 May 2023
• In short, two constituencies: those who baked and those who faked.
  — Charlotte Druckman, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• But the sentiment among staff at the jail was that the 24-year-old was faking her symptoms, Carstairs said.
  — Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 2023
• Keller raced alone at Fleury, faked right and scored into the left corner to make it 6-0 at 38 seconds.
  — John Shipley, Twin Cities, 14 Jan. 2024
• Ethel faked right, then cut to the inside, and her husband threw her a perfect spiral.
  — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 2 June 2023
• With two seconds to go in the first half, a Notre Dame player stops the clock by faking an injury and the Fightin’ Irish score on the next play.
  — Iliana Limón Romero, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2023
• Roberts might as well ask why Buzz Aldrin doesn’t engage with people who think the Moon landing was faked.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 30 June 2023
• Instead, Rhaenyra and Daemon help Laenor fake his death and escape.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 24 Oct. 2022
• The fact that it was faked didn't stop it from being posted across the internet and rising to the top of Google search results.
  — Ben Goggin, NBC News, 8 Oct. 2023
• And either fake the handoff or handoff to one of the better guys like Kyrie or Luka, then screen and roll and make a play at the rim.
  — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 23 July 2023
• Now, their daughter is suspecting of killing the woman in an attempt to fake her own death.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2023
• Imagine a child reading a short story about a boy who wakes up in the morning and fakes being sick to avoid going to school.
  — David Risher, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2023
• But, like almost everything about Wirecard, the records had been faked.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
• Stop faking, trying to drive to get that next best possible shot.
  — Dj Siddiqi, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
• The doctor was told there was a high suspicion that Serna was faking her seizures.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Jan. 2024
• Seth faked a bad connection, dropped off the Zoom call, and ran down the hallway and into his daughter's classroom.
  — Allison Moses, USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
• The doctor was told there was a high suspicion that Serna was faking.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2024
• Same goes for Hardy’s timing on late lobs whenever a big man fakes on defense.
  — Callie Caplan, Dallas News, 5 July 2023
• And there were plenty of other ways to fake a lifestyle that wasn’t 100% reflective of one’s income.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2023
• There can be a lack of empathy from clinicians and the public, who might view them as faking illness to game the system.
  — Judy Stone, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
• In Nashville, Tennessee, hot chicken is a self-policing thing—places that fake the fire don't tend to stay in business very long.
  — Timothy Charles Davis, Southern Living, 7 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024