Example Sentences

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The mother and daughter — with the help of the Rockettes — work together to battle the Humbugs and, in doing so, receive the real gift: spending time together.

From New York Times • Nov. 5, 2011

He whisks them off to the North Pole and gives them a video game to play; in it the Humbugs have stolen all of his Christmas toys.

From New York Times • Nov. 5, 2011

Attracted by the publicity, an American journalist named Jack Walser thinks he may have found another subject for a series he is planning on "Great Humbugs of the World."

From Time Magazine Archive

There are some subjects to which a lecturer must lead up gradually; so I discuss the doctors in my discourse on Humbugs and save the attorneys for my talk on Gall.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 by Brann, William Cowper

There are various kinds and classes of Humbugs; but reduced to the last analysis—stripped of the sugar- coating by which they impose on the public—they are one and all simply professors of falsehood.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 by Brann, William Cowper