How to Use hoax in a Sentence

hoax

noun
  • She was the victim of a cruel hoax.
  • The bomb threat is probably a hoax, but we should still evacuate the building.
  • None of the three apologized for their roles in the hoax.
    Clyde Haberman, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2023
  • No threat was found and the call was determined to be a hoax.
    Brieanna J. Frank, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The whole thing was revealed as a hoax in under an hour.
    Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2023
  • Upon his death in 2002, it was revealed that this was a hoax.
    Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 14 Mar. 2023
  • It was soon determined that the call was a hoax and court resumed at 3:10 p.m.
    Fox News, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Cruz is not alone in wanting to pull her son out of school after the hoax, Bardwell said.
    Deanna Pan, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Mar. 2023
  • At the scene, police learned that the report was a hoax and that no one had been assaulted.
    cleveland, 1 Nov. 2022
  • The teen was not a student at Mater Dei and police believe the call was a hoax, Molina said.
    Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The hoax appears to play off of fears of software used to spy on victims’ phones, known as spyware.
    Ben Goggin, NBC News, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Both were sentenced to over a decade in prison for their roles in the company's blood-testing hoax.
    Barbara Ortutay, ajc, 16 Dec. 2022
  • This was a follow-up to his exemplary work on the Russia hoax.
    Rich Lowry, National Review, 27 Feb. 2023
  • If there's no information at all, that's a big clue that the giveaway is a hoax.
    Kimberley Mok, Treehugger, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The call was later determined to be a hoax, police said.
    Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Sep. 2022
  • However, the whole thing was later revealed to be a hoax.
    Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 21 June 2023
  • The call sounds similar to the call from a hoax at Princeton High School last September.
    Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Media outlets that didn't report it as news, explained that the YouTube video was a hoax.
    Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The county coroner said the post is a hoax and that no human remains were recently found in the area.
    Brieanna J. Frank, USA TODAY, 19 July 2023
  • Places like Benny’s are long gone, and the return of Ames is apparently some sort of a weird hoax.
    Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 1 June 2023
  • She has since been charged in connection with the kidnapping hoax.
    Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Pulling out of Paris was part of Trump’s campaign rhetoric, along with his assertions that climate change was a hoax.
    IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
  • In the end, the majority of kids don’t like these threats, pranks and hoaxes, and become as upset as the teachers.
    Rosemary Sobol, Chicago Tribune, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Farrar, Straus and Giroux), about two childhood friends and a literary hoax.
    Riza Cruz, ELLE, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Deputies determined the call was a hoax after reaching the home and making sure the residents were safe.
    Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Any chance at all this could be a terrible hoax or joke that someone is playing?
    David Begnaud, CBS News, 18 Mar. 2023
  • The persistence of the swatting hoaxes pushed TextNow to tighten its policies.
    Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Heard then counter-sued Depp for a statement his attorney made to the Daily Mail calling her abuse claims a hoax.
    Gina Martinez, CBS News, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Law enforcement quickly determined that the threat was a hoax.
    David Ingram, NBC News, 7 Feb. 2024
  • That iconic 1934 image, for example, was eventually revealed as a hoax.
    Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 23 Jan. 2024

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