hoax in English

noun
1
a humorous or malicious deception.
they recognized the plan as a hoax
verb
1
deceive with a hoax.
I now have reason to believe that in unraveling a hoax I was hoaxed myself.

Use "hoax" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "hoax" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "hoax", or refer to the context using the word "hoax" in the English Dictionary.

1. " Hoax, " said a Voice.

2. It's probably just a hoax.

3. " It's a hoax, " said Mr. Marvel.

4. A hoax is a hoax, of course, but it seems different when the phoney says he is Balenciaga's grandson.

5. Traffic was disrupted by a hoax bomb.

6. 14 Last week's blast triggered several hoax calls.

7. Why must they came up with this hoax?

8. He described the deception as a cruel hoax.

9. 2 Traffic was disrupted by a hoax bomb.

10. 13 Their vivid colouring is a hoax.

11. 12 It was then I started making hoax calls.

12. 7 He described the deception as a cruel hoax.

13. 1 It turned out to be an elaborate hoax.

14. The UFO sightings were revealed to be a hoax.

15. So on one level, this is not a hoax.

16. Supercut: Media Credulously Reports Another Hate Crime Hoax

17. Don't hoax the new boy who's my nephew.

18. Dr. Fassbender and Operation Looking Glass are certainly no hoax.

19. The first Commenter suggested that the story is a hoax

20. 16 Did Mr Hawthorne stand to gain from a hoax?

21. 3 The bomb threat turned out to be a hoax.

22. The book Asserts that the 1969 moon landing was a hoax

23. 6 Don't hoax the new boy who's my nephew.

24. 5 They were the victims of a cruel hoax.

25. 8 The organizers staged a hoax on some of the competitors.

26. 17 Phone-in services can be bedevilled by hoax calls.

27. 15 The UFO sightings were revealed to be a hoax.

28. 4 The emergency call turned out to be a hoax.

29. Being fully Apprized of the hoax and of his falling for it, Limbaugh acknowledges on the air that it was a hoax and one he'd been taken in by

30. Fool or hoax Familiarity information: Befool used as a verb is rare.

31. 29 What was really wonderful was that the paper swallowed the hoax whole.

32. 25 He was threatened with jail if evidence of a hoax was discovered.

33. 21 It was all an accident, a hoax he had perpetrated on himself.

34. The perpetrators of the hoax managed to dupe respectable journalists into printing their story.

35. Rachel Maddow and Countless Braindead Leftists Continue Promoting the Ivermectin Hospital Hoax

36. Arriving at the hospital, I learned the emergency call was a hoax.

37. 10 He denied making the hoax call but was convicted after a short trial.

38. 19 The perpetrators of the hoax managed to dupe respectable journalists into printing their story.

39. 11 Detectives are investigating a hoax call which led to the evacuation of an office block.

40. 9 They asked for the maximum penalty for hoax calls to be increased to one year.

41. 30 It was still not clear last night whether the tapes were an elaborate hoax.

42. During 2013 trails were reported in Girvan, Scotland possibly as part of an April Fool's hoax.

43. Well, now you got to see for yourselves that fortunetelling is just a big, stupid hoax.

44. 26 A telephone caller said there was a bomb in the hotel but it was just a hoax.

45. 24 The police are trying to sift out the genuine warnings from all the hoax calls they have received.

46. 23 The fire - brigade answered the emergency call but there was no fire it was all a hoax.

47. Trump repeatedly Assails the proceedings as a “hoax” and a “sham” and says he did nothing wrong

48. A telephone caller said there was a bomb in the hotel but it was just a hoax.

49. Public schools were probably the greatest victims of the asbestos hoax because of understandable concerns raised by anxious parents.

50. 20 The hoax devices were destroyed in controlled explosions by army bomb disposal experts,(www.Sentencedict.com) using remote-controlled vehicles.