HUMBUG in a Sentence
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11 example sentences for HUMBUG, such as:
1. Yes, there's no humbug about her.
2. But you needn't have been such a humbug.
3. Charley profanely hinted they were humbug.
4. For my part, I think half this republican talk sheer humbug.
5. One of them is a hero, another a buffoon, another a humbug, another perhaps a bit of a blackguard.
2. But you needn't have been such a humbug.
3. Charley profanely hinted they were humbug.
4. For my part, I think half this republican talk sheer humbug.
5. One of them is a hero, another a buffoon, another a humbug, another perhaps a bit of a blackguard.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of HUMBUG
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Classic Sentence:
1 This relieved me; and once more, and finally as it seemed to me, I pronounced him in my heart, a humbug.
2 Charley profanely hinted they were humbug.
3 For my part, I think half this republican talk sheer humbug.
4 Yes, there's no humbug about her.
5 But you needn't have been such a humbug.
6 That music has taken the vanity out of me as Rome took it out of her, and I won't be a humbug any longer.
7 'Now that, my child,' continued Miss Mowcher, rubbing all the time as busily as ever, 'is another instance of the refreshing humbug I was speaking of.'
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE
8 One of them is a hero, another a buffoon, another a humbug, another perhaps a bit of a blackguard.
9 It didn't take me long to make up my mind that these liars warn't no kings nor dukes at all, but just low-down humbugs and frauds.
10 I said, what a set of humbugs we were in general, and I showed you the scraps of the Prince's nails to prove it.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE
11 Well; all sorts of humbugs profess morality.
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