Explore Shill through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like decoy or deceive. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Shill in a sentence
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Shill meaning
- A person paid to endorse a product while pretending to be impartial.
- Any person enthusiastically endorsing a product; especially, one who is getting paid for the endorsement.
- An accomplice at a confidence trick during an auction or gambling game, such as an accomplice of the seller who bids to drive up the price.
Using Shill
- The main meaning on this page is: A person paid to endorse a product while pretending to be impartial. | Any person enthusiastically endorsing a product; especially, one who is getting paid for the endorsement. | An accomplice at a confidence trick during an auction or gambling game, such as an accomplice of the seller who bids to drive up the price.
- Useful related words include: decoy, steerer, deceive, lead on.
- In the example corpus, shill often appears in combinations such as: shill for, shill bidding, shill is.
Context around Shill
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 10 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 2 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Shill
- In this selection, "shill" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, ebay, years, aaron, bidding, wrote and saying stand out and add context to how "shill" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a selfish shill comprador and an unprincipled shill running around. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "shill" sits close to words such as abaribe, abbasids and abstentions, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with shill
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Ok let me shill for a moment. (7 words)
David Shill, Executive Director of the Cougar Pride Center. (9 words)
Shill also said he was optimistic about the future. (9 words)
Given the way Depp’s movie career has fallen off a cliff over the last half-decade, it certainly wouldn’t be surprising to see the controversial movie star take Saudi Arabia’s bloody oil money to shill for the nation. (41 words)
The Ohio Democratic Party said in a statement that voters have rejected Dolan’s attempt to buy a US Senate seat once, and that he’s been a shill for corporate donors while Brown has focused on working families. (39 words)
Walton and his associates were charged and convicted of fraud by the United States Attorney for their eBay shill bidding. citation With the proliferation of live online auctions in recent years shill bidding has become commonplace. (36 words)
Is anyone actually looking forward to this who isn't a Disney Marvel Shill? (14 words)
It's confusing: which one is the feeble-minded corporate shill, and which one is the dangerously psychotic dotard? (19 words)
Example sentences (20)
Walton and his associates were charged and convicted of fraud by the United States Attorney for their eBay shill bidding. citation With the proliferation of live online auctions in recent years shill bidding has become commonplace.
My friend Aaron Shill wrote a fun piece about his conversation with the clean comedian Nate Bargatze, in which he shares when it was that he realized Utah loves his comedy.
The irony of a Marvel Studios/Kevin Feige/Walt Disney shill saying this.
The last thing the House GOP needs right now is an unprincipled shill running around flapping her gums to unfriendly media outlets.
The Ohio Democratic Party said in a statement that voters have rejected Dolan’s attempt to buy a US Senate seat once, and that he’s been a shill for corporate donors while Brown has focused on working families.
David Shill, Executive Director of the Cougar Pride Center.
Even worse, Bobby has become a shill for Russian propagandaopponent of American military aid to Ukraine's besieged democracy.
Given the way Depp’s movie career has fallen off a cliff over the last half-decade, it certainly wouldn’t be surprising to see the controversial movie star take Saudi Arabia’s bloody oil money to shill for the nation.
Is anyone actually looking forward to this who isn't a Disney Marvel Shill?
It paints a very accurate picture of who Trump is: a selfish shill comprador.
Shill also said he was optimistic about the future.
Sometimes a person in a seat of power is a co-opted shill.
The plot is ostensibly a crime story involving Chico serving as Groucho's shill, inflating the prices of worthless homes at auction, and the return of a valuable necklace to a wealthy socialite (Dumont).
If y ou u can or wont admit to that, you are either a shill or worse, just plain ignorant.
I suppose that mean he just promotes company happenings and acts as a general sing-along shill.
It's confusing: which one is the feeble-minded corporate shill, and which one is the dangerously psychotic dotard?
They censor all the time and they shill post too to start drama, keeps the people coming back.
Gene Simmons the cash shill he is is 4 seconds away from a lawsuit against her tongue.
Newspapers can’t keep a non-profit status if they constantly shill for the Democratic party as is being done now by both papers and TV media.
Ok let me shill for a moment.
Common combinations with shill
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- shill for 8×
- shill bidding 3×
- shill is 3×
- to shill 2×
- the shill 2×