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How to use fake in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective, noun, verb

Fake means not real; false, fraudulent. Example: “Which fur coat looks fake?”

Examples of fake by meaning

adjectiveNot real; false, fraudulent.

  • Which fur coat looks fake?
  • “Fake” was one of Trump’s favourite slap-downs, especially to news outlets that reported unwelcome facts about him and his associates.2025 October 2, William Davies, “A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0”, in The Guardian

nounSomething which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.

  • I suspect this passport is a fake.
  • Staddon of Goodmayes, a gentleman who had made a particular hobby of fakes in photography.1922, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Coming of the Fairies

verbTo make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.

  • to fake a marriage
  • to fake happiness
  • to fake a smile

verbTo modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is.

  • He had a hundred similar tricks, but I never knew him fake a horse, or sell one as sound if it was not.1944, George Henderson, The Farming Ladder

verbTo improvise, in jazz.

  • Occasionally the opportunity arises to stand up and "fake" a jazz standard.1994, ITA Journal, volume 22, page 20
  • In the face of this print music culture, 'faking' was the ability—at once respected and disrespected—to improvise a song (or a part in an arrangement) without reading the notation.Denning, cited in 2020, Matt Brennan, Kick It: A Social History of the Drum Kit (page 110)

More sentences with fake

  • That shady trickster faked being a psychic advisor to spread misinformation and gain profit.From the entry trickster
  • How do you differentiate a fake smile from a genuine one?From the entry differentiate
  • He didn’t manage to authenticate the portrait: it’s probably a fake.From the entry authenticate
  • The girl using a fake ID to enter a bar was guilty of uttering.From the entry uttering
  • The fake was easy to spot because of its inferior brushwork.From the entry brushwork
  • On this play, we're going to fake a short pass but go deep to Kelly or Chris.From the entry go deep
  • He told me that he was experienced, but I could tell instantly that he was faking it.From the entry fake it
  • She looked like she was having fun, but I knew that she was faking it.From the entry fake it
  • A basket of fake fruit adorned the table.From the entry basket
  • He gestured unbelievably. Everyone knew he was faking his illness.From the entry unbelievably
  • The fighter looked harmlessly punch drunk, but he was only faking and suddenly threw a vicious, skillful blow.From the entry punch drunk
  • We must take this fake news item down today.From the entry take down
  • When the ambulance doors opened, doctors were confronted with six moulaged clowns, each writhing in pain from impressive fake acid burns.From the entry moulaged
  • When the directors came out of their meeting, I hit the boss key to replace my game with a fake spreadsheet screen.From the entry boss key
  • Incels Chadfish by creating fake dating app profiles using pictures of extremely attractive men.2024, Michael Halpin, "Are you an NPC?: The Stigmatization of Facts and Knowledge in Right-Wing Online Communities", research paper…. From the entry Chadfish
  • TOAD attacks often involve callback phishing, where victims are tricked into calling fake call centers.2024 June 6, Alex Lvoff, “How TOAD Scams Manipulate and Cheat Customers”, in Experian. From the entry TOAD attack
  • Yesterday I bought some paste, which is a nickname for fake diamonds, and they were from Bergdorf’s.2023 March 10, Alex Vadukul, quoting Nan Goldin, “Nan Goldin Is Ready for Oscar Night”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry paste
  • She's faker than the plastic food in the pictures on the McDonald's menu.2022, Amanda Elliot, Sadie on a Plate, page 155. From the entry faker
  • In January, two other popular modules called colors and faker were intentionally sabotaged by their maintainer.2022 March 19, Lucian Constantin, “Developer sabotages own npm module prompting open-source supply chain security questions”, in CSO…. From the entry protestware
  • That led to speculation that Cotten may have faked his own death.2022 January 18, Cassie Williams, “Quadriga CEO's widow speaks out over his death and the missing crypto millions”, in CBC News. From the entry closed casket
  • Back then, scammers groomed their victims to place bets on fake gambling websites.2022 February 20, Wong Shiying, “The pig-butchering scam: Con artists who come for your heart and wallet”, in The Straits Times. From the entry pig butchering
  • Personally I dislike reaction videos because they seem fake and prewatched.2022 January 17, tony223111, r/DemonSlayerAnime, Reddit, archived from the original on 04 Dec 2024. From the entry prewatch
  • On StudyTok, people are pretending to study with celebs through fake but impressively realistic video calls.2021 August 13, Koh Ewe, “I ‘Worked With’ Celebrities To See if It Will Make Me More Productive”, in Vice, archived from the original on…. From the entry StudyTok
  • So, beware of fake holographics—remember, if there's no diffraction, then it's not a hologram."2021 November 1, Mark Wolverton, “Where are all the holograms?: The elusive realm of total 3D immersion”, in SPIE, archived from the…. From the entry fauxlography
  • “Fake stories that her skeleton is the one at Cape D’Aguilar have been circulating for long enough.2021 August 7, Kylie Knott, “The story behind Hong Kong’s whale skeleton display, and why a 3D-printed replica will soon straddle the…. From the entry Cape D'Aguilar
  • To make money I started selling Cush, which was considered to be fake weed.2020, Samuel Van Ness IV, A Stranger Within (HC), Dorrance Publishing, →ISBN, page 289. From the entry cush
  • Unless the letters were fake, they blew a hole through Martha's story.2020, Thomas Mullen, Midnight Atlanta. From the entry blow a hole through
  • The Hollywood elitists had nominated two fraudumentaries on fake hospitals, yearning to breathe free.2020 February 22, Miri Wood, “Health Minister Discusses Status of Syria's Actual Hospitals”, in Syria News. From the entry fraudumentary
  • More facts, better education and less fake news are a start.2019 April 26, Andre Spicer, “Measles is on the march again – but scare tactics won’t improve vaccination rates”, in The Guardian. From the entry pro-vaxxer
  • The introduction of “fake calligraphy” or “fauxligraphy” took the bullet journaling community by storm.2019 May 6, map938, ““Fauxligraphy” the New Calligraphy”, in NYU.edu, archived from the original on 26 Feb 2023. From the entry fauxligraphy

Meaning of fake

  1. adjective Not real; false, fraudulent.
  2. adjective Insincere.
  3. noun Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.

Full definition of fake

Questions about fake in a sentence

How do you use fake in a sentence?
Fake is used as an adjective, noun and verb. For example: “Which fur coat looks fake?”
What is a short sentence with fake?
“to fake happiness”
What does fake mean?
Fake means not real; false, fraudulent.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fake (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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