COUNTERFEIT in a Sentence
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21 example sentences for COUNTERFEIT, such as:
1. It is a crime to counterfeit money.
2. He rings every coin to find a counterfeit.
3. Sometimes the populace counterfeits fidelity to itself.
4. At this favorable moment the counterfeit conjurers disappeared.
5. This watch may be a counterfeit, but it looks just like the original.
2. He rings every coin to find a counterfeit.
3. Sometimes the populace counterfeits fidelity to itself.
4. At this favorable moment the counterfeit conjurers disappeared.
5. This watch may be a counterfeit, but it looks just like the original.
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Meanings and Examples of COUNTERFEIT
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counterfeit
a. not genuine; imitating something superior
v. make a copy of with the intent to deceive
Classic Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1 He rings every coin to find a counterfeit.
2 But, alas, it was again the case of the honest merchant, who finds that the genuine and unadulterated article is driven to the wall by the artistic counterfeit.
3 At this favorable moment the counterfeit conjurers disappeared.
4 A wretched man, being at the end of his resources, had coined counterfeit money, out of love for a woman, and for the child which he had had by her.
5 That the prioress had told him to bring his brother on the following evening, after the counterfeit interment in the cemetery.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAV...
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAV...
6 "It may be counterfeit," said Athos.
7 Gatsby, his hands still in his pockets, was reclining against the mantelpiece in a strained counterfeit of perfect ease, even of boredom.
8 All the known incidents of their love were enlarged, distorted, touched up, and modified, till the original reality bore but a slight resemblance to the counterfeit presentation by surrounding tongues.
9 'All of a shiver,' said Mr. Dick, counterfeiting that affection and making his teeth chatter.
10 The Mohican started on his feet, and shook his shaggy covering, as though the animal he counterfeited was about to make some desperate effort.
11 This fellow Hayes had shod his horses with shoes which counterfeited the tracks of cows.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
Context Highlight In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
12 The counterfeits of the past assume false names, and gladly call themselves the future.
13 Sometimes the populace counterfeits fidelity to itself.
14 They were bandits, counterfeiters, poisoners, incendiaries, murderers, parricides.
15 Nothing can be more melancholy than these reprisals in painting, by a pack of cards, in the presence of stakes for the roasting of smugglers and of the cauldron for the boiling of counterfeiters.
Example Sentence:
1 Toad doesn't actually change his ways, but instead simply learns to counterfeit socially acceptable virtues in order to be accepted by his society.
2 He sprung his secret, but the surprise it occasioned was largely counterfeit and not as clamorous and effusive as it might have been under happier circumstances.
3 The traffic in counterfeit medicines in developing countries is a worldwide gaping wound.
4 It is a crime to counterfeit money.
5 This watch may be a counterfeit, but it looks just like the original.