How to Use forger in a Sentence

forger

noun
  • Prison brings out the worst in a forger, a killer and a drunken driver in for manslaughter.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Art forgers don’t necessarily give away all their tips.
    — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 20 May 2026
  • Calling a telephone number on a check is not real protection against a forger.
    — Carmen Gonzalez Caldwell, miamiherald, 26 Apr. 2017
  • In the sordid world of professional thieves, con artists, and forgers, the answers are never clear.
    — Spenser Mestel, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Jeanne had teamed up with Rétaux de Villette, who was both her lover and her official forger.
    — Tori Telfer, refinery29.com, 24 Feb. 2021
  • If the fake passes muster, the forger becomes more confident in its strategy.
    — Nick Thieme, Slate Magazine, 21 July 2017
  • For a forger, drawing and painting and aging is just the beginning and most obvious part of the process.
    — Tony Tetro, Town & Country, 22 Nov. 2022
  • This isn’t the first time scientists have turned to radiocarbon dating in an attempt to thwart forgers.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 7 June 2019
  • These guys have connections on both sides of things — like with law enforcement and with forgers, and other connections that way.
    — Hope Reese, Vox, 4 June 2018
  • Beltracchi, who with long hair and beard looks every part the artist, is the best forger Martin’s been asked to scrutinise.
    — Kris Hollington, Newsweek, 22 July 2014
  • Skilled forgers started to catch on, endeavoring to cash in on that development.
    — JSTOR Daily, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The forgers of the future have become custodians of an optimistic past.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 4 June 2026
  • That somewhat undermined the government’s claim that the scheme would leave forgers and tax dodgers holding piles of useless rupees.
    — The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Authorities have not revealed the identity of the forger or that of any accomplices.
    — Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 20 Feb. 2025
  • If so, how did the same forger get access to a yearbook in Alabama and to a scrapbook in Florida?
    — William Saletan, Slate Magazine, 8 Dec. 2017
  • With Garak’s help, Sisko springs an alien forger out of a Klingon prison to manufacture this fiction.
    — Phil Pirrello, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Most successful forgers were smart and creative people, and many of their forgeries were consummate, even ingenious.
    — JSTOR Daily, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The fossil was so extraordinary that Von Meyer wondered if some forger had etched it.
    — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2012
  • Hardy inhabits the role of Eames, a forger in the film’s complex dream world who can project himself into others’ dreams as a doppelgänger.
    — Elliott Smith and Chris Bellamy, EW.com, 23 May 2024
  • In a 2010 talk in Paris, Sarah Kaminsky recalled her first glimpse of her father’s life as a forger.
    — Joseph Berger, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The Toad in the Hole is a wonderful historical object, akin to an early work by a great painter (or painting forger).
    — Daniel T. Ksepka, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon takes on a dangerous case involving the world’s greatest art forger.
    — Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2022
  • The authentic art consumer, the one who actually experiences the work in person, looks down upon the forger.
    — Soraya Roberts, Longreads, 30 Mar. 2020
  • Which brings me to this Gyutou pictured at left, a Western-style chef's knife handmade in Japan by the master forgers at Togiharu.
    — Elizabeth Gunnison Dunn, Esquire, 20 Dec. 2011
  • While painting a Nuenen man, the forger missed a long vertical stick used by Brabant peasants to carry bundles of wood on their backs.
    — Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The novel follows a young woman, Grace, who secretly becomes an incredible art forger.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 July 2025
  • This three-part series explores the crimes of Mark Hofmann, one of the most notable forgers and counterfeiters in history.
    — Jacqueline Weiss, Peoplemag, 20 Feb. 2023
  • The highs and lows of life as a celebrity art forger are front and center in Tony Tetro's engrossing, delicious memoir about his life behind a paintbrush.
    — The Editors, Town & Country, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Determined to save them, Fry established a network of helpers, forgers and guides to smuggle them over the Pyrenees and into Spain.
    — Helen Fry, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2019
  • The two sides were GAN’s positive and negative poles, the detective network and the forger network.
    — Wired, 1 Sep. 2021

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