Example Sentences

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In Minnesota, some Medicaid autism treatment centers, transportation providers and housing purveyors were shams.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

We make our custom shams 1 inch smaller than the fill to achieve the really full look.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 3, 2023

He knows he can turn proceduralist rules into shams, and he knows most of his staff is either too constrained to do anything about it or unaware of what’s really going on.

From Slate • Dec. 2, 2021

When they couldn't get answers, that's when they dug into it more, they determined they were shams and they began to short them.

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2021

The history of race relations in Durham was, after all, a long line of such shams extending back for a century.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson