How do you use Charade in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like parody or impersonation, plus the exact meaning.
Charade meaning
- A genre of riddles where the clues to the answer are descriptions or puns on its syllables, with a final clue to the whole.
- A single round of the game charades, an acted form of the earlier riddles.
- A play resembling the game charades, particularly due to poor acting.
Synonyms of Charade
Using Charade
- The main meaning on this page is: A genre of riddles where the clues to the answer are descriptions or puns on its syllables, with a final clue to the whole. | A single round of the game charades, an acted form of the earlier riddles. | A play resembling the game charades, particularly due to poor acting.
- Useful related words include: parody, impersonation, imitation, caricature.
- In the example corpus, charade often appears in combinations such as: the charade, charade of, this charade.
Context around Charade
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 6 middle, 10 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Charade
- In this selection, "charade" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 21.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, deteriorating, fictional, claus, doesn, aimed and belgrade stand out and add context to how "charade" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and fictional charade and but the charade doesn t. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "charade" sits close to words such as aficionados, aiadmk and airships, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with charade
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
But the charade doesn't work. (6 words)
LP is not part of the charade. (7 words)
Nobody can accuse Australia of playing any part in that charade. (11 words)
Fancy let the public in on the charade that was their love life, on what they had been hiding from the public when she later said while responding to Alexx’s statement that the actor cum model manipulated and forced her to make that public apology. (46 words)
Today, this column is forced to turn readers’ attention again to the charade of deflecting the governance responsibility for violent crime, particularly with the spy, quadruple murder and Valsayn fatal child abuse reports dominating last week’s headlines. (38 words)
Everything may be a bit of a mess, but he offers the Valcos even more money on top of the previous deal in order to continue the charade until Missy and her family leave. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
But the charade doesn't work.
Everything may be a bit of a mess, but he offers the Valcos even more money on top of the previous deal in order to continue the charade until Missy and her family leave.
Fancy let the public in on the charade that was their love life, on what they had been hiding from the public when she later said while responding to Alexx’s statement that the actor cum model manipulated and forced her to make that public apology.
Kishida’s mantra of concerning America and newly leaked documents – highlights the charade of his own words.
LP is not part of the charade.
Nobody can accuse Australia of playing any part in that charade.
The alum tries to fool Erica telling her he’s “Dusty,” but ultimately fails to continue the charade.
The hearings will take place against the back-drop of our deteriorating charade over in Ukraine.
The Republic protester told PA: “The opening of Parliament is the day that should be all about democracy, when really it becomes about this kind of charade of a monarchy, a militaristic monarchy.
Financial crime consultant Woods said the share transfer was possibly a “charade” aimed at hiding a stake in Maltex while still being able to make money off it.
Had Vucic finally been confronted with the need to give up his charade, Belgrade may have voluntarily spread Serbian military munitions to the Ukrainian battlefield without spreading Russian political ammunition throughout the region.
I have now realized that Randianism is just Zionism regurgitated disguised as Aristotle in a great philosophical and fictional charade.
Parenthood comes with many different responsibilities, but one of the most challenging and hilarious is definitely the Santa Claus charade.
Stanley Donen’s movie Charade, starring Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant, also was an inspiration.
The charade continued the next day in a between Austin and Gallant discussing the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.
Today, this column is forced to turn readers’ attention again to the charade of deflecting the governance responsibility for violent crime, particularly with the spy, quadruple murder and Valsayn fatal child abuse reports dominating last week’s headlines.
While Jack updates everyone on the charade and the reasons behind it, Victor will deliver a warning to Claire Newman (Hayley Erin).
All pretenders to the leadership of our people, badly underestimate the capabilities of our people to see through the charade.
But while this charade starts smoothly enough, the robotic Morty suddenly gains sentience.
Certainly a charade is being played out with the formal charges for impeachment against a sitting president.
Common combinations with charade
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the charade 24×
- charade of 10×
- this charade 10×
- charade and 8×
- charade is 4×
- was charade 3×
- is charade 3×
- whole charade 3×
- charade that 2×
- impeachment charade 2×