How to Use bogus in a Sentence

bogus

adjective
  • It was just a bogus claim.
  • The evidence was completely bogus.
  • And the whiffage had nothing to do with any bogus strike zone.
    — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 June 2019
  • In the days since, more bogus calls and threats have rolled in across the country.
    — Neil Vigdor, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2024
  • After all, this wouldn’t be the first time the app duped us with a bogus hack.
    — Marisa Petrarca, Allure, 3 July 2023
  • But what happens when some of those reviews turn out to be bogus?
    — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2019
  • So if speed reading is bogus, is there any way to read more quickly?
    — Big Think, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Just the idea that beige is a one-size-fits-all solution to nude is bogus.
    — Jessica Cruel, SELF, 20 July 2018
  • There can be bogus aspects in that data.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • So all of these stories are bogus, bad, tasteless.
    — Julia Moore, PEOPLE, 29 Apr. 2026
  • But many other videos may truly be bogus.
    — James Warren, Chicago Tribune, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Others joined him in making the bogus threats.
    — ABC News, 29 Apr. 2026
  • But the focus of the bogus blog's analysis raised red flags at the time.
    — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 26 Jan. 2021
  • The bogus charges were also later dropped.
    — Anita Chabria, Mercury News, 23 Dec. 2025
  • There wasn't a bogus risk pool involved to make things easy for the Tax Court.
    — Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Epstein insisted the new claims against him were bogus.
    — Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The reports of state capitals breached in other places turned out to be bogus.
    — Lisa Mascaro, Ben Fox, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2021
  • Lawyers for the families call the debts bogus and are challenging them in court.
    — Tovia Smith, NPR, 14 June 2024
  • Some sites have put guardrails on user reviews to reduce the chances of bogus ratings.
    — Kristen Hawley, Bon Appétit, 26 July 2022
  • His book about the costs of bogus science will soon be published by Lyons Press.
    — George Melloan, WSJ, 16 Dec. 2018
  • Henderson told Benson that the charges on their face were bogus.
    — Megan Rose, ProPublica, 20 Nov. 2019
  • The singer’s team called the suit a bogus and absurd publicity stunt.
    — Deon J. Hampton, NBC News, 7 Dec. 2024
  • But after the victims wire that money, their banks alert them that the check from the scammers was bogus.
    — Ron Hurtibise, Sun Sentinel, 8 Sep. 2022
  • The charge, which the father says was bogus, made his son an outcast who no longer had gang protection.
    — Danny Robbins, ajc, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Don't trust bogus bargains Rock-bottom pricing should be your first clue.
    — Joshua Sidorowicz, CBS News, 28 Nov. 2025
  • My charge was so bogus that even the liberal district attorney threw it out.
    — David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Less than a month later, the blockchain world would blow up at the hands of a bogus crypto king in the Bahamas.
    — Steven Levy, WIRED, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Bitcoin’s price rose by more than $1,000 after the bogus tweet.
    — Dan Mangan, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Therefore, Feuerstein spent a lot of filming time with his face in a mountain of bogus blow.
    — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 25 June 2024
  • And do not click on any unknown links that can be bogus ones mirroring the look and feel of the real Airbnb.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 17 July 2023

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