How to Use charade in a Sentence

charade

noun
Definition of charadenext
Synonyms for charadenext
  • We've grown tired of your charades.
  • Their spicy fake date quickly turns into a hot and heavy long-distance affair, forcing the pair to decide whether their one-time charade could actually be something more.
    — Shannon Carlin, TIME, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Coughlan's post also included a video of the Bridgerton wedding ceremony set and a video of the cast playing charades, as their characters do on the season.
    — Esme Mazzeo, Peoplemag, 4 July 2024
  • Ordinary Gazans could thus gain some humanitarian relief and, if all sides accepted the charade, a degree of stability.
    — Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 30 July 2024
  • Was that the proper time to pull the covers off the charade?
    — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Drum up a game of tag or charades to get the whole gang involved.
    — Kat Hnatyshyn, kansascity, 30 June 2018
  • With that line, the purpose of the charade became clear.
    — Griffin Black, Scientific American, 12 Oct. 2020
  • To be honest, the Olympics are a façade, a mirage, a charade.
    — Norman Chad, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Feb. 2018
  • To Cosby, Cliff and Clair Huxtable were just a charade.
    — Dahleen Glanton, chicagotribune.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • What was the purpose of the charade behind the QB battle?
    — oregonlive, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Ducky, of course, knows about these secret plans but goes along with the charade.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Sanders, for his part, did not play too much into the charade.
    — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Malekzadeh managed to pull off the charade for nearly a decade.
    — oregonlive, 29 July 2022
  • The players passed time by playing charades and a card game.
    — Jeff Kirik, Detroit Free Press, 21 Jan. 2020
  • Some bands have grown weary — not of the love an encore elicits, but of the charade that came to define the tease.
    — Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2022
  • The revival does away with the whole anonymity charade, but in the process makes the watchers more compelling than the watched.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 8 July 2021
  • But this whole thing has been a charade from the beginning.
    — Fox News, 17 Aug. 2018
  • Nor does anybody need to be surprised that the press isn’t in a rage now to expose the Steele charade.
    — WSJ, 25 May 2021
  • Off the floor, other members of Fox seemed equally tired of the charade.
    — Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani, The New Republic, 18 Oct. 2023
  • But now the whole miserable charade has come to an end.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Gordimer, however, saw the lifting of the ban as a charade to make the apartheid regime look more fairminded.
    — Helen Kapstein, The Conversation, 28 July 2022
  • Before the anxiety and the pills and the charade of social drinking as an adult.
    — Keith Bierygolick, The Enquirer, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Cue the charade of Marisa then trying to keep up her rich-girl image throughout the film, all in the pursuit of love.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 13 Dec. 2022
  • As Clarence starts to believe his own charade, the filmmaker tries to shape lessons out of the madness.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The timbre of the suffrage story changed on July 14, Bastille Day, after a month of the charade.
    — Alli Hartley-Kong, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Oct. 2020
  • There’s a moment in the play where Tedra asks Juicy to guess Rick James’s birthday, to decide who will go first in a game of charades.
    — Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Each side had its own self-serving motive to go along with this charade.
    — Joey Morona, cleveland, 18 Nov. 2019
  • These might seem like simple charades but there’s more to these nuances of nature than meets the eye.
    — Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 30 Apr. 2020
  • The gangs have their role to play in these political charades.
    — Robert F. Worth, New York Times, 3 May 2023
  • Why did the Democrats agree to participate in this charade?
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2024

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