How to Use fake in a Sentence

fake

1 of 3 adjective
Definition of fakenext
Synonyms for fakenext
  • 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
  • But the investments are fake, and once victims send enough funds, the scammers disappear.
    — Zeke Faux, Fortune, 29 Feb. 2024
  • But things get messy when Mike Martin, the inspiration for her fake paramour, comes back into her life.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 29 Feb. 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 | Bthomas@al.com, 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 | Tgreen@al.com, 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 | Nalvarez@al.com, 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
  • Many still remain up, and a deluge of new graphic fakes have since appeared.
    — Jess Weatherbed, The Verge, 25 Jan. 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 | Bthomas@al.com, 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
  • Three plays later, sophomore quarterback Kartel Purvis faked to Jackson and walked in from a yard out for the 6-0 lead.
    — Kevin J. Farmer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Apologize to your dad, and for his birthday fake him a moon landing like a decent daughter.
    — New York Times, 14 Jan. 2021

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