How to Use charade in a Sentence

charade

noun

• We've grown tired of your charades.
• While this torch-to-torch relay has emerged as an enduring symbolic and theatrical charade, the tradition didn’t originate in ancient Olympia.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 July 2024
• Was that the proper time to pull the covers off the charade?
  — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 28 Nov. 2023
• Drum up a game of tag or charades to get the whole gang involved.
  — Kat Hnatyshyn, kansascity, 30 June 2018
• With that line, the purpose of the charade became clear.
  — Griffin Black, Scientific American, 12 Oct. 2020
• To be honest, the Olympics are a façade, a mirage, a charade.
  — Norman Chad, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Feb. 2018
• To Cosby, Cliff and Clair Huxtable were just a charade.
  — Dahleen Glanton, chicagotribune.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• What was the purpose of the charade behind the QB battle?
  — oregonlive, 2 Sep. 2022
• Ducky, of course, knows about these secret plans but goes along with the charade.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 4 Oct. 2022
• Sanders, for his part, did not play too much into the charade.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 29 Mar. 2023
• Malekzadeh managed to pull off the charade for nearly a decade.
  — oregonlive, 29 July 2022
• The players passed time by playing charades and a card game.
  — Jeff Kirik, Detroit Free Press, 21 Jan. 2020
• Some bands have grown weary — not of the love an encore elicits, but of the charade that came to define the tease.
  — Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2022
• The revival does away with the whole anonymity charade, but in the process makes the watchers more compelling than the watched.
  — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 8 July 2021
• But this whole thing has been a charade from the beginning.
  — Fox News, 17 Aug. 2018
• Nor does anybody need to be surprised that the press isn’t in a rage now to expose the Steele charade.
  — WSJ, 25 May 2021
• Off the floor, other members of Fox seemed equally tired of the charade.
  — Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani, The New Republic, 18 Oct. 2023
• But now the whole miserable charade has come to an end.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 13 Dec. 2022
• Gordimer, however, saw the lifting of the ban as a charade to make the apartheid regime look more fairminded.
  — Helen Kapstein, The Conversation, 28 July 2022
• Before the anxiety and the pills and the charade of social drinking as an adult.
  — Keith Bierygolick, The Enquirer, 15 Oct. 2021
• Cue the charade of Marisa then trying to keep up her rich-girl image throughout the film, all in the pursuit of love.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 13 Dec. 2022
• As Clarence starts to believe his own charade, the filmmaker tries to shape lessons out of the madness.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Jan. 2024
• The timbre of the suffrage story changed on July 14, Bastille Day, after a month of the charade.
  — Alli Hartley-Kong, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Oct. 2020
• There’s a moment in the play where Tedra asks Juicy to guess Rick James’s birthday, to decide who will go first in a game of charades.
  — Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• Each side had its own self-serving motive to go along with this charade.
  — Joey Morona, cleveland, 18 Nov. 2019
• These might seem like simple charades but there’s more to these nuances of nature than meets the eye.
  — Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 30 Apr. 2020
• The gangs have their role to play in these political charades.
  — Robert F. Worth, New York Times, 3 May 2023
• Why did the Democrats agree to participate in this charade?
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2024
• The charade only ended in the final years of Chuck Blazer's life.
  — Tom Hays, courant.com, 13 July 2017
• This domino effect is the entirely predictable result of courts that have let this charade go on.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 15 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024