How to Use shill in a Sentence

shill

1 of 2 verb

• The best so far? O’Neill’s not shilling for his neighbors, either.
  — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 21 June 2019
• And why wouldn’t CC Mobile onboard Jimmy to shill cellphones at one of their area stores?
  — Kenny Herzog, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2022
• Use the power of your vote to elect gun control candidates and reject those who shill for the gun lobby.
  — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2022
• Longtime fans of the Grammy winner might wonder how much KFC paid her for shilling their new product.
  — Grace Schneider, The Courier-Journal, 25 Jan. 2018
• Even the most famous influencers, the ones who get deals with luxury brands, all seem to be shilling for the platform lately.
  — Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2023
• Today, Kanye West took a break from shilling for the alt-light to produce a bunch of tweets about his other great love: his Yeezy apparel business.
  — Cam Wolf, GQ, 25 Apr. 2018
• One of the few voices raised in opposition came from Hopper, still red baiting and shilling for the producers.
  — Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 July 2023
• That might be due, in part, to the fact there's less promotion involved, since shilling for upcoming movies or TV shows feels like a little awkward.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 17 Apr. 2020
• On every flight, we are made to read frequent announcements and walk through the cabin shilling the applications.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2023
• The government views shilling for makeup or shoes as different from shilling for crypto.
  — Elle Reeve, CNN, 7 Apr. 2023
• Statements and video of unidentified employees who shill for you?
  — The Hive, 16 Feb. 2017
• The seriousness of the moment had been punctured by the arrival of what felt like a souvenir, the kind shilled by amusement parks after a ride on their tallest roller coaster.
  — Elissa Strauss, Glamour, 11 Oct. 2018
• The deluge of discourse started when showrunner’s assistant Olivia Maher posted a video back in May shilling the virtues of her mish-mash of cheeses and bread, sparking a slew of riffs.
  — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 19 July 2023
• Other public figures use the platform as a place to rant, or to shill for the highest bidder; Hathaway, on the other hand, does not in fact post anything herself.
  — Elizabeth Holmes, Town & Country, 8 Jan. 2019
• Godzilla has been recruited to shill a range of products in commercials, from Snickers to Fiat cars.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 3 Nov. 2019
• Yep, that is Rodman shilling for a cryptocurrency site that hopes to become the preferred payment method for weed transactions.
  — Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root, 12 June 2018
• Even though big-name Democrats are hastening to dump Weinstein’s donations as if the cash were on fire, some progressives are still shilling for the powerful exec.
  — Alexandra Desanctis, National Review, 8 Oct. 2017
• Instead of shilling for beer or airlines or offshore casinos, Lerner gave the real estate on the front of Villa’s shirt to a children’s hospice foundation.
  — Jonathan Clegg, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2018
• The work’s title was a metaphor for how the cosmetics industry shills unnecessary products.
  — Ashley Weatherford, The Cut, 11 May 2018
• Willis, who at this point was indistinguishable from his Moonlighting role of David Addison, tries on some smirky repartee with a lukewarm Stone, in the service of shilling a wine cooler.
  — Dave Holmes, Esquire, 8 Feb. 2018
• Influencers on social media are human facades of cool who mostly shill for products.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 2 Feb. 2022
• The vision is an entire ecosystem in which sellers can hawk their wares to consumers directly, creators can shill sponcon, and consumers can buy things, all without ever leaving the app.
  — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 19 July 2023
• Ford Times was a house-organ publication that shilled the virtues of owning, not surprisingly, a Ford automobile.
  — Peter Tertzakian, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2017
• Others turned their ire directly on the founders, harshly criticizing them for capitalizing on the work of thousands of volunteers and then shilling their product in that very same space.
  — WIRED, 23 Feb. 2023
• Even Kellogg’s Kashi line of high-fiber, protein-rich cereals have shed sales in recent years, inviting criticism that big food companies have trouble shilling better-for-you options.
  — Matthew Boyle, Bloomberg.com, 28 Sep. 2017
• And corporations shilling everything from gasoline to overalls often called on Hatch for mammoth adverts.
  — Jon Waterhouse, CNN, 7 June 2017
• The cultural import of these promotions is now so accepted that big stars who once, jealous of their reputations, would shill only overseas do not hesitate to say yes.
  — Robert Lloydtelevision Critic, Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2023
• Conspiracy theorist and far-right radio host Alex Jones has been ordered by the New York attorney general to stop shilling phony coronavirus cures.
  — Joshua Bote, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2020
• Some commentators have suggested that Ms. Paltrow is using the opportunity to shill for her company, Goop, identifying various items as from its clothing line or for sale on the site.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
• Professional financial advice from an objective financial adviser — avoid those shilling products — can add hundreds of thousands of dollars to the retirement savings of the average American worker.
  — Michael J. Francis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Dec. 2019

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shill

2 of 2 noun

• Again, he was cast by critics in the role of Trump shill.
  — Washington Post, 12 July 2020
• Best of the web — More stories like this, please, about celebrity shills feeling the pain.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2023
• The Joint List, outraged, worked to portray him as a shill for Netanyahu, and the strategy seemed to work.
  — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2021
• Of course, this is not the first time Messi has acted as a shill for Saudi Arabia.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 10 May 2023
• Experts say that means auction houses are free to use shills to jack up the bidding.
  — Dennis Wagner, azcentral, 24 June 2019
• Turns out Alex Jones is a complete shill while pretending to fight the power!
  — Tom Philip, GQ, 1 Aug. 2017
• Hope Sharon Kennedy, who’s a complete shill for the probable can party.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 26 May 2022
• And, with that, a righteous Koppel won the face-off with the arrogant ideologue and Trump shill.
  — vanityfair.com, 27 Mar. 2017
• One of Hazel’s fellow shill players, a buddy of the club owner named Richard Dooley, watched Rowe like a hawk.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 2 May 2012
• Hazel worked for the Vapors as a shill player, gambling with house money to keep the tourists interested and the games going.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 2 May 2012
• The government claimed the crew used a variety of shill accounts to promote the main Tripwithscience brand.
  — Thomas Brewster, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021
• By no means was Law — no one’s idea of a Pads shill or ever a fanboy draftnik/farm booster — alone in touting the Pads’ youth movement.
  — Tom Krasovic, sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 June 2018
• At least the gun-control lobby and their anti-Second Amendment shills are keeping the campaign to ban guns classy.
  — Nicole Gaudiano, USA TODAY, 11 May 2018
• Irving was one of its chief shills, and for a decade traveled the globe spewing pro-Nazi revisions of history.
  — Jerad W. Alexander, Esquire, 17 Feb. 2017
• The real news here is Malignaggi, a Showtime analyst who will work the bout, is nothing more than a shill for the fight.
  — Tim Dahlberg, The Seattle Times, 5 Aug. 2017
• Well, to my eyes, Monbiot is swinging wildly with the charge of Brand being little more than a corporate shill.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2010
• The haters likely will look at Brewlab as a corporate shill posing as a microbrew to win back Seattle.
  — Tan Vinh, The Seattle Times, 6 Sep. 2017
• Fortunately for the Warriors, Thompson heals faster than the preacher’s shill at a tent revival.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Feb. 2021
• Each side of the argument saw the other as out of touch and vaguely foreign—shills of evil corporations or dupes of clueless NGOs.
  — The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
• The first results are likely to be ads for other sites that shill credit monitoring.
  — Liz Weston, oregonlive, 24 July 2021
• If an auctioneer uses house bidders to get a minimum price, these items are most likely the targets for shills.
  — Dennis Wagner, azcentral, 24 June 2019
• For Dutton and his cowboy comrades, there’s no space in Montana for outsiders, and anyone who disagrees is a shill, scammer, or fool.
  — Daniel Bessner, The New Republic, 14 Nov. 2022
• As Maupin tried to serve as a neutral mediator and allow the students to read statements of apologies, he was met with jeers from some students, who called him a shill for racists.
  — Richard Ruelas and, azcentral, 21 June 2019
• Shill’s instillation centers on a large-scale curtain made of gold spandex.
  — Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Know, 28 May 2017
• The narrative drums along that Mr. Marino was a shill for the pharmaceutical lobby.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2017
• Experts disagree on whether the use of shill bidders is common, or appropriate.
  — Dennis Wagner, azcentral, 24 June 2019
• Even the second-best theme-park shills in Orlando provided my kids with the joy of a lifetime, at least until the next outlandishly expensive trip.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 22 Aug. 2019
• What’s worse, however, is the product the Times has allowed Prince to shill: mercenaries that, under Prince, committed war crimes in Iraq.
  — Sarah Jones, New Republic, 30 Aug. 2017
• Their faces are plastered all over the Internet, people calling them shills, bobbleheads, and puppets.
  — Anonymous, Vox, 5 Apr. 2018
• Avast also alerted both TikTok and Instagram to the shill accounts doing the promotions.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 22 Sep. 2020

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024