Hoax is an English word of 4 letters with synonyms like fraud or deceive. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Hoax in a sentence
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Hoax meaning
To deceive (someone) by making them believe something that has been maliciously or mischievously fabricated.
Synonyms of Hoax
Using Hoax
- The main meaning on this page is: To deceive (someone) by making them believe something that has been maliciously or mischievously fabricated.
- Useful related words include: fraud, lead on, deceive, pull someone's leg.
- In the example corpus, hoax often appears in combinations such as: hoax and, the hoax, was hoax.
Context around Hoax
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 10 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hoax
- In this selection, "hoax" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, collusion, grave, disinformation, richard, known and published stand out and add context to how "hoax" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include alleged bomb hoax before he and an alleged hoax by randall. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hoax" sits close to words such as addo, coma and cyrus, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hoax
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
In this particular case, it was a hoax. (8 words)
Can we consider the information as a social media death hoax? (11 words)
Global Warming as an alleged hoax, by Randall Enos, Easton, Conn. (11 words)
All of these are the precise arguments many of us cited when Donald Trump was impeached in December 2019 (as his reelection campaign began, and immediately after being cleared of the 22-month, $40 million special counsel Russian-collusion hoax). (40 words)
Carroll says Trump defamed her by calling her rape claim a hoax, lie and “complete con job” on his Truth Social media platform, and said she was not his “type” and had made up the claim to sell her memoir. (40 words)
After its involvement in the farcical Russia hoax and its coercion of Twitter and Facebook to censor The Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story before the 2020 election, nobody trusts the FBI not to keep lying to protect itself. (39 words)
Can we consider the information as a social media death hoax? (11 words)
Example sentences (20)
At this point, anyone with even half of their wits about them knows that the whole mass grave hoax was just that, a hoax.
In terms of Big Lies, the Joe-Biden-is-of-sound-mind tall tale was right up there with the Russian collusion hoax and the Hunter Biden-laptop-is-Russian-disinformation hoax.
Amanda: Even if it was a hoax, even if it was a hoax, this is really happening all the time.
One of the suspected writers of that hoax, Richard Adams Locke, was Poe's editor at the time "The Balloon-Hoax" was published.
Poe may have been inspired, at least in part, by a prior journalistic hoax known as the " Great Moon Hoax ", published in the same newspaper in 1835.
According to the hoax, the cloud originates from the Ukrainian city of Khmelnytskyi, the new website reports.
A court previously heard that he disappeared from the barracks on 2 January after the alleged bomb hoax before he was “arrested in or near his car” 24 days later.
After its involvement in the farcical Russia hoax and its coercion of Twitter and Facebook to censor The Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story before the 2020 election, nobody trusts the FBI not to keep lying to protect itself.
All of these are the precise arguments many of us cited when Donald Trump was impeached in December 2019 (as his reelection campaign began, and immediately after being cleared of the 22-month, $40 million special counsel Russian-collusion hoax).
Budke says initial investigations believe this call to be a hoax, but they continue to follow leads.
But this is not the first time a radio station has played a hand in propagating this hoax.
Can we consider the information as a social media death hoax?
Carroll says Trump defamed her by calling her rape claim a hoax, lie and “complete con job” on his Truth Social media platform, and said she was not his “type” and had made up the claim to sell her memoir.
Church leaders serving up free soup to those in need have been left in disbelief after getting a hoax call from someone claiming to be from environmental health.
Come the general election, Republican Party policy on the question of climate change will have to do more than call it a hoax.
Further, he said the government’s factory-per-district promise has been nothing more than a hoax.
Global Warming as an alleged hoax, by Randall Enos, Easton, Conn.
Her hoax led people to question her public persona, including her work as a human-rights activist.
I believe this is the biggest commercial hoax in the world today.
In this particular case, it was a hoax.
Common combinations with hoax
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- hoax and 22×
- the hoax 20×
- was hoax 15×
- hoax call 9×
- is hoax 9×
- be hoax 8×
- as hoax 7×
- it hoax 6×
- hoax to 6×
- collusion hoax 5×