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Example sentences for "bogus"

Lexicographically close words:
bogie; bogies; bogland; bogles; bogs; bogy; boid; boil; boild; boile
  1. The dress was hung in a closet, and Mr. Yenowine proceeded on the arctic exploring expedition, while Mr. Northrop and the detective were examining a corset that the young woman had thrown on the floor, looking for bogus quarters.

  2. I have the bogus crescents in my possession," Miss Cutler smilingly remarked to Mona.

  3. The crescents were produced and Mr. Cutler brought forth the bogus ones, which he still had in his possession, and the two pairs appeared to be exact counterparts of each other.

  4. Cronin, who taxed him with being concerned in the manufacture of the bogus dispatches.

  5. That bogus transfers to members of the organization had been issued as coming from Ireland.

  6. But little money given Mrs. McCahey; small sums given to men abroad; bogus transfers fabricated by X Y and others.

  7. He had learned his history by acting as chief attorney in the bogus case that had been brought against the physician before a Chicago justice for the express purpose of cross-examining Cronin regarding his past life.

  8. When I found out about the bogus corpse I began to see my way.

  9. How could he guess that he, Keralio, would send a bogus telegram just in time to dash the cup from his lips.

  10. Yet, unfaithful to the trust, it permitted this bogus subscription to be put in, many hours after the bids had been opened.

  11. To bring about the proportion which Mr. Rogers wanted, a bogus subscription of five or six times the unallotted balance was put in by him, and this is where the fraud was committed.

  12. The National City Bank was in duty bound to protect the public from any such bogus subscription, and to see that fair treatment was accorded to all subscribers.

  13. Mr. Rogers' uncertainty as to the totals of the subscription made it evident that the bogus subscription was not in the bank even yet, and as it must be for a definite amount and backed up by a five-per-cent.

  14. The exact amount of the bogus subscription could not be decided until the exact figures of the subscriptions had been compiled, so the figures I gave out that night were only estimates.

  15. But to meet this allotment, a very large bogus subscription had been necessary, and therein I saw the weakness of Rogers and Rockefeller and the weapon that Providence had intrusted to my hands.

  16. I would have sent you on bogus errands to mysterious places.

  17. First, because Hobson and I were decoyed to Chicago by a bogus telegram, evidently with the idea that we should find it impossible to catch or search this steamer.

  18. The New York merchants were evidently becoming expert in the preparation of bogus certificates.

  19. The enemy merchants seemed to have come to the conclusion, that it was no longer of any use to prepare bogus certificates, and that they might as well let their cargoes run the chances of war, without them.

  20. It was next to impossible for the owner of an American ship to procure freight unless he consented to make a bogus sale of his ship.

  21. The law against rascals "who are getting up bogus lotteries, and sending their "circulars in the mails is a good law.

  22. And then he played his trump card by showing them the text of the bogus telegram recommending Miss Eliza Thick, which he had dispatched from a branch postal office on his way through the town.

  23. I guess I'm the worst offender, with my bogus telegrams and my deliberate deception of your father.

  24. A great success," said the bogus cook, but holding it on the other side of her apron so that Kathleen could not see.

  25. Mrs. Lee said we could borrow Bogus and the surrey to-morrow.

  26. Mrs. Lee said that I could have Bogus to-morrow, and, as it is Saturday, the children will be at home to help you.

  27. Joyce had arranged to keep Bogus part of the next day, so that they could ride into Phoenix to church.

  28. The object of seizing the newspapers, telegraphic instruments and records, was to prevent the disaster that must follow the further spreading of the impression created by the bogus message, that our Government was in dire distress.

  29. The bogus proclamation spread faster and further than the denial of it possibly could.

  30. The devil take me, is this a reformatory for bogus noblemen!

  31. They do not do so much of the bogus teaching of English, but they do nothing whatever in its place.

  32. This bogus currency may provoke the levity of the profane, but it was, nevertheless, prized by the saints above the value of silver or gold, and held by the monasteries at its highest marketable price.

  33. This circumstance, twenty years afterwards furnished the papal machinery with a convenient opportunity for manufacturing a bogus Sebastian.

  34. They were all concealing the poet's principles and paying honor to a bogus Shelley.

  35. The selection of such a man to pronounce the eulogy on Shelley was in keeping with the whole proceedings at Horsham, where everybody was lauding a "bogus Shelley," as Mr. Shaw remarked at the Hall of Science celebration.

  36. The first lot of bogus bills were ready to go into the mail at Birmingham as soon as I was out of the way--it having been decided that I should then be out of the country.

  37. By taking this course I should have been safe and could have laughed at any attempt of the bank authorities to extradite me, for the first lot of bogus bills could have been held back until I had actually arrived in America.

  38. Our expenses had been so enormous that we were anxious to make enough to recoup them, so it had been agreed that the first batch of bogus bills should not exceed the amount paid out since leaving Rio.

  39. It was arranged to send in the first lot of bogus bills on Thursday, giving me two full days out of the country.

  40. We'll fix up a bogus bag and make an exchange!

  41. And this was soon accomplished, and the bogus bag left where the original had rested.

  42. There were plenty of leaderettes on the cunning shown by the men, but the alacrity of the women to purchase the bogus medicines was, as a rule, lightly passed over; and great as is M.

  43. They talked of getting you down on the water-front or up in Chinatown with some bogus message and said how easy it would be to dispose of you without leaving clues behind 'em.

  44. If there is a demand for tall, light structures, why not build them simply (as bridges are constructed), and not add a poultice of bogus columns and zinc cornices that serve no purpose and deceive no one?

  45. Those very bosoms are fakes, and cannot open, being instead pierced by eyelets, into which bogus studs are fixed by machinery.

  46. This they began to do till, at last, seeing themselves being led into the jaws of the enemy, they halted, and some one demanded to know who this bogus officer might be.

  47. The Canadians especially distinguished themselves by their zest and acuteness, and in all the bogus engagements--the attack drill--earned the praise of the commander.

  48. It would be astounding if the postal officials accepted any such bogus arbitration.

  49. In other words, he was going to take shelter behind this bogus committee.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bogus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    affected; apocryphal; artificial; assumed; bastard; bogus; colored; counterfeit; deceptive; distorted; dummy; embellished; embroidered; factitious; fake; false; falsified; feigned; fictitious; garbled; glossy; illegitimate; imitation; mock; perverted; phoney; phony; pinchbeck; plastic; pretended; pseudo; quasi; queer; sham; shoddy; simulated; sophistic; spurious; supposititious; synthetic; tin; tinsel; twisted; unauthentic; unnatural; unreal; curtsy; embrace; encounter; greet; greeting; hail; handshake; hug; invoke; kiss; meet; memorialize; molest; near; nod; pick; proposition; salutation; salute; shake; sidle; smile; solicit; speak; uncover