shill

Example Sentences

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But doctors believe in immunization because it works, not because they’re paid shills.

From The Wall Street Journal

Yet they were anything but shills and dupes.

From The Wall Street Journal

She was broke, and trying to raise a baby, while working as a shill at a dice-and-poker house in El Monte.

From Los Angeles Times

She appeared on “Dancing with the Stars,” starred in a Broadway revival of “Chicago,” wrote a best-selling book and shilled for major brands such as Bic, Glad and Chili’s in self-referential commercials.

From Los Angeles Times

In contrast to the warmly interconnected townsfolk we first met, these wage shills, who open up to each other in a long car ride, lead pinched, lonely, unrealized lives.

From Los Angeles Times