false front
Example Sentences
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She looks for the truth while hiding behind a false front.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2025
He’d pull out his false front tooth to show the result of a collision with a crossbar to amuse his three daughters at the kitchen table.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 14, 2023
They are feeling the exhaustion of having to keep up a false front.
From Salon • May 3, 2023
And then his wedge to the 16th came up just short enough to catch the false front and tumbled back into the fairway.
From Washington Times • Jan. 10, 2023
He snatched the camellias from Jean Louise and pinned them to her shoulder, glaring sternly at her false front.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
