Example Sentences

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The old woman who usually looks after us is shamming again, Mr Varne.

From The Heath Hover Mystery by Mitford, Bertram

"The fellow is shamming," said Fletcher to himself; and he felt disgust rather than sympathy.

From The Young Adventurer or Tom's Trip Across the Plains by Alger, Horatio

It is shamming dead, people will tell you; it is pretending, in order to escape its enemy.

From The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

And he stuck to that, and Ned could not get another word out of him: but he says he is shamming, and is not ill a bit.

From Uncle Max by Carey, Rosa Nouchette

"The kid is shamming," growled the first mate, whose watch it now was.

From Ralph Granger's Fortunes by Brown, William Perry