How to Use charade in a Sentence

charade

noun

• We've grown tired of your charades.
• Drum up a game of tag or charades to get the whole gang involved.
  — Kat Hnatyshyn, kansascity, 30 June 2018
• The grotesque charade didn’t seem to belong to this world.
  — Literary Hub, 15 Dec. 2025
• Sanders, for his part, did not play too much into the charade.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 29 Mar. 2023
• Lots of people fell for the charade.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
• This will take too long and require too much work to keep up the charade.
  — John Hodgman, New York Times, 21 May 2025
• Ducky, of course, knows about these secret plans but goes along with the charade.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 4 Oct. 2022
• Malekzadeh managed to pull off the charade for nearly a decade.
  — oregonlive, 29 July 2022
• Cuba watchers have had decades to get used to this charade.
  — Quico Toro, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2026
• Each side had its own self-serving motive to go along with this charade.
  — Joey Morona, cleveland, 18 Nov. 2019
• To rephrase that, what we’ve been shown is a little bit of a charade.
  — Callum Booth, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
• Read the full story on this charade, which includes video.
  — Chris Branch, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
• To be honest, the Olympics are a façade, a mirage, a charade.
  — Norman Chad, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Feb. 2018
• The gangs have their role to play in these political charades.
  — Robert F. Worth, New York Times, 3 May 2023
• Trump’s Oval Office chart charade can’t hide the truth.
  — Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 11 Aug. 2025
• But doesn’t this whole charade still feel a bit beneath the Warriors?
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 13 Apr. 2026
• 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
• 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
• What was a steamy battle of wits in the novel looks more like a chemistry-free charade onscreen.
  — Stephanie Merry, idahostatesman, 1 Mar. 2018
• Off the floor, other members of Fox seemed equally tired of the charade.
  — Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani, The New Republic, 18 Oct. 2023
• Eventually, he is forced to drop the charade.
  — Rachel Vorona Cote, The Atlantic, 5 Jan. 2026
• Does charades, Muffin-style stick to the original rules or even make sense?
  — Vanessa Armstrong, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2024
• The referee then has to stand in front of the monitor, hands on hips, and go through a charade of free will.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 14 July 2026
• 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
• 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
• The community is tired of the charade.
  — Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 23 Mar. 2026
• Before the anxiety and the pills and the charade of social drinking as an adult.
  — Keith Bierygolick, The Enquirer, 15 Oct. 2021
• The problem with playing charades is that not all the players are able to decode the pantomime.
  — Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 15 Sep. 2025
• 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
• To create the showbiz charade of being a beast in the ring and a nice presentable housewife the rest of the time.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025