How to Use forger in a Sentence

forger

noun
  • When in (Times New) Rome This is a foolish error to make by the forgers.
    Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 13 July 2017
  • Prison brings out the worst in a forger, a killer and a drunken driver in for manslaughter.
    Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2021
  • In a 2010 talk in Paris, Sarah Kaminsky recalled her first glimpse of her father’s life as a forger.
    Joseph Berger, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Jan. 2023
  • In the book’s subtitle, Mr. Tetro, who is now in his 70s, calls himself the world’s greatest art forger.
    Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 9 Feb. 2023
  • For a forger, drawing and painting and aging is just the beginning and most obvious part of the process.
    Tony Tetro, Town & Country, 22 Nov. 2022
  • If a forger unwittingly includes the faux towns — or streets, bridges, rivers, etc. — then the true creator can prove foul play.
    Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2021
  • Which brings me to this Gyutou pictured at left, a Western-style chef's knife handmade in Japan by the master forgers at Togiharu.
    Elizabeth Gunnison Dunn, Esquire, 20 Dec. 2011
  • Beltracchi, who with long hair and beard looks every part the artist, is the best forger Martin’s been asked to scrutinise.
    Kris Hollington, Newsweek, 22 July 2014
  • If so, how did the same forger get access to a yearbook in Alabama and to a scrapbook in Florida?
    William Saletan, Slate Magazine, 8 Dec. 2017
  • Jeanne had teamed up with Rétaux de Villette, who was both her lover and her official forger.
    Tori Telfer, refinery29.com, 24 Feb. 2021
  • With Garak’s help, Sisko springs an alien forger out of a Klingon prison to manufacture this fiction.
    Phil Pirrello, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Apr. 2023
  • It centers on an American painter and forger (Keith Carradine) in Paris in the 1920s.
    Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Determined to save them, Fry established a network of helpers, forgers and guides to smuggle them over the Pyrenees and into Spain.
    Helen Fry, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2019
  • If the fake passes muster, the forger becomes more confident in its strategy.
    Nick Thieme, Slate Magazine, 21 July 2017
  • The two sides were GAN’s positive and negative poles, the detective network and the forger network.
    Wired, 1 Sep. 2021
  • This isn’t the first time scientists have turned to radiocarbon dating in an attempt to thwart forgers.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 7 June 2019
  • That somewhat undermined the government’s claim that the scheme would leave forgers and tax dodgers holding piles of useless rupees.
    The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017
  • These guys have connections on both sides of things — like with law enforcement and with forgers, and other connections that way.
    Hope Reese, Vox, 4 June 2018
  • The original inscription would have been a stark contrast to the weathered exterior—a good choice for a Roanoke colonist but a poor one for a modern forger.
    Mark Thiessen, National Geographic, 29 May 2018
  • This three-part series explores the crimes of Mark Hofmann, one of the most notable forgers and counterfeiters in history.
    Jacqueline Weiss, Peoplemag, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Calling a telephone number on a check is not real protection against a forger.
    Carmen Gonzalez Caldwell, miamiherald, 26 Apr. 2017
  • The highs and lows of life as a celebrity art forger are front and center in Tony Tetro's engrossing, delicious memoir about his life behind a paintbrush.
    The Editors, Town & Country, 3 Nov. 2022
  • The fossil was so extraordinary that Von Meyer wondered if some forger had etched it.
    Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2012
  • One of the University of Michigan Library’s most prized possessions, which appeared to be a Galileo manuscript, is now thought to be the work of a 20th-century forger.
    New York Times, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon takes on a dangerous case involving the world’s greatest art forger.
    Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Among the forgers' errors, according to the report, was in using modern ink to write snippets from the Bible on the ancient scraps, according to an analysis by German labs.
    Daniel Burke, CNN, 15 Mar. 2020
  • Louis, too, is vastly different from role to role, particularly as the charming but lethal François I and then as the meek but deeply talented art forger Yves Chaudron.
    Christine Dolen, miamiherald, 17 July 2017
  • The authentic art consumer, the one who actually experiences the work in person, looks down upon the forger.
    Soraya Roberts, Longreads, 30 Mar. 2020
  • But Fritz Vollrath, a zoologist at Oxford University, reckons his skills as a forger are up to the challenge.
    The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
  • Mrugalla was an expert art forger, copying the works of Rembrandt, Picasso, Renoir and many other masters.
    Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 13 Oct. 2017

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