How to Use sham in a Sentence

sham

1 of 2 noun

• He claims that the trial was a sham.
• Their marriage was a sham.
• She exposed their sham and hypocrisy.
• Many people believed he could help them, but I knew he was a sham.
• It’s a sham, a short con or a long one, and the deck is stacked against you.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], al, 3 June 2022
• And of course, the whole impeachment process is just a sham.
  — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 28 Apr. 2021
• Still, critics and activists have called the election a sham.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2024
• Covid isn’t fatal, the tests are a sham, and says Kuzma was just a sickly man.
  — Sam Kestenbaum, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2022
• Still, Facebook’s critics were ready to call out the Oversight Board as a sham.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 8 Nov. 2022
• This sham of a lockout can be explained by one word: greed.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2022
• But it’s a sham, and creates dire consequences for people caught in a web of fines and fees.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], al, 19 Sep. 2022
• Because beating around the bush can give your business the appearance of a sham or a scheme.
  — John Hall, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2021
• Plan your ribbon placement (our top ribbon starts 1-inch down from the top corners of the sham).
  — Sonja Carmon, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Apr. 2021
• The rumors refused to die, no matter how many times they have been exposed as a sham.
  — Michael Smolenscolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Apr. 2022
• It’s offered in two sizes and a selection of ten colors, and the set includes two shams as well.
  — Jamie Weissman, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 July 2023
• Among them is Alaa Abdel Fattah, who has spent much of the past decade behind bars on charges rights groups say are a sham.
  — Siobhán O'Grady, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
• Navalny and his team said the charges were fabricated to silence him and slammed the trials as a sham.
  — Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2022
• And so, this last chance for white male identity to find its purpose through war is revealed to be a sham.
  — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 24 May 2023
• In their lawsuit, the investors claim the banks should have seen the signs that Stanford’s operation was a sham.
  — Laurel Brubaker Calkins, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Feb. 2023
• Meanwhile, Democrats, who have for months labeled the audit a sham, doubled down.
  — Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 25 Sep. 2021
• But as anyone who’s ever made a drastic life change knows, the idea of a totally new you is a sham.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Apr. 2022
• Anything less would grant the crypto industry an enormous privilege in the true sense of the word and make a sham of the rule of law.
  — Matt Sekerke, National Review, 1 Oct. 2021
• When Pons and Fleischmann published a paper at last, their work was savaged as a sham.
  — Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2023
• Along with the cover, the set comes with two matching pillow shams of the same material.
  — Isabel Garcia, Peoplemag, 11 Aug. 2023
• Each set comes with a comforter, two standard pillow shams, two Euro shams, and a bed skirt with a 16-inch drop.
  — Sharon Brandwein, Southern Living, 3 Aug. 2023
• Aside from the twin and twin XL sizes, the set comes with a duvet cover and two pillow shams—the two smallest sizes only come with one sham.
  — Kylee McGuigan, Popular Mechanics, 27 Apr. 2022
• The set includes a comforter, flat and fitted sheet, pillowcase and sham.
  — Jamie Kim, Good Housekeeping, 7 Nov. 2022
• At the news conference Wednesday, Zalkin that the move to divest assets was a sham that had been years in the making.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Feb. 2023
• But their counteroffer to the President's plan is a sham -- based on three faulty premises.
  — Jeffrey Sachs, CNN, 1 June 2021
• Critics say that elections amount to little more than a sham, and Putin is all but guaranteed to win come March.
  — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 8 Feb. 2024

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sham

2 of 2 adjective

• The money would be paid to a sham charity, and then used for bribes.
  — NBC News, 11 Nov. 2021
• He was put on the court through a sham process, and his place on the court is an insult to the pursuit of truth and justice.
  — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 16 Sep. 2019
• Court records show that Whitaker ran Loan Starters, a sham business in Texas.
  — Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 22 Feb. 2024
• Do not go to one of those sham tech training institutes.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 13 Mar. 2019
• The set comes with the duvet cover, as well as two sham pillowcases.
  — Madeline Diamond, Travel + Leisure, 11 Apr. 2020
• This trial wasn’t like so many others where some enrollees get the drug in question and others get a sham dose.
  — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 3 Apr. 2023
• In the sham trials of the Jim Crow South, everyone knew the verdict before it was delivered.
  — John Blake, CNN, 5 Feb. 2020
• Kern also took part in the sham hand-recount of ballots in Maricopa County in 2021.
  — WIRED, 15 Nov. 2023
• This Sunday, the regime of Nicolas Maduro will hold a sham parliamentary election in Venezuela.
  — Jorge Jraissati, National Review, 2 Dec. 2020
• Gates believes a sham audit in Arizona was a petri dish for denialism.
  — Jess Bidgood, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Nov. 2022
• Pathogen exposure and not the sham treatment changed the ants’ behavior in ways that further protected the colony.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 26 Nov. 2018
• Instead, there is torture, a sham trial, and a gulag (called laogai).
  — Nr Editors, National Review, 20 June 2019
• The risk of a sham or counterfeit drives piracy and counterfeiting.
  — Wayne Lonstein, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2021
• In one study, a surgeon gave patients a sham knee surgery, where the surgeon made an incision, but did nothing to the knee before sewing it back up.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 3 June 2022
• And these are some of the things that can potentially influence how people perceive the sham treatment.
  — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 26 Sep. 2023
• The sham audit in Arizona continues, although behind closed doors, unlike the open counts and recounts of ballots the first time.
  — Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 19 May 2021
• Did QAnon sneak in (or get invited) to Arizona's sham election audit?
  — Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 20 May 2021
• After a sham trial, Clayton, Jackson, and McGhie were declared guilty.
  — National Geographic, 4 June 2020
• That non-profit, as well as other shell entities, made sham payments to the defendants.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2020
• His lawyers allege Edison conducted a sham investigation and used the complaints to push him out of his job.
  — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2022
• After a sham trial lacking due process and transparency, the Saudi court sentenced him to 20 years in prison plus a 20-year travel ban after his time served.
  — Areej Al-Sadhan, CNN, 1 July 2022
• But there was no such deception here in that the existence of the sham candidates was well publicized prior to Election Day.
  — Eric Zorn, chicagotribune.com, 19 July 2019
• The allegations that a group of men ran a sham school and production company all to prey upon young women at the start of their careers are appalling.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
• In Gabon and Niger, youngsters fed up with sham politics crowd streets and stadiums to yell slogans in favor of military coups.
  — Declan Walsh, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2023
• The resulting sham prosecution made plain to Waring the hypocrisy of the Justice Department’s efforts.
  — Joseph Crespino, WSJ, 18 Jan. 2019
• Waters said Fleming helped to divert millions of dollars to an account set up by Murdaugh for a sham company.
  — NBC News, 29 Oct. 2021
• He and his siblings set up a sham corporation to disguise millions of dollars in gifts from their parents, records and interviews show.
  — Susanne Craig, The Seattle Times, 2 Oct. 2018
• He has been sentenced to death after a legal proceeding that has been widely criticized as a sham trial.
  — Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 21 Aug. 2023
• So, as Putin prepares for a sham election to return him for a fifth term as president, Navalny has been conveniently eliminated.
  — Trudy Rubin, The Mercury News, 22 Feb. 2024
• Smith alleged that Trump tried to use the Justice Department to open sham election investigations and influence state legislatures with claims of fraud that Trump knew were false.
  — Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024