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    Use "feint" in a sentence

    feint example sentences

    feint


    feinted


    feinting


    feints


    1. It read heavily and in feint print in an old language


    2. at the top, I threw a feint, a round-house motion with my right


    3. She tried to hide it, but she did a very feint smile


    4. He it is, who burnt down the corn, and poured out the water, and who has led you astray; and all the promises he has made you, verily are but feint, and deceit, and a lie


    5. He it is who burnt down the corn and poured out the water and who has led you astray; and all the promises he has made you verily are but feint and deceit and a lie


    6. In an act of bravery he opened his eyes to see the feint lights


    7. punch the monk, only for the monk to feint at him with bat


    8. It was a feint to get a butterfly knife out


    9. I got close enough to strike, tried to fake him out with a feint, but my blow was knocked aside


    10. Marianne began to lose her way as the pitch black of night replaced the feint light that preceded it

    11. looking, and thought of the silver mine, there would be a feint


    12. feint sound of a car's motor had become apparent


    13. "Winded," was the feint


    14. Of course, by knowing the rules, he could feint that he was obeying them until he broke them


    15. The Nycarman feint a move to Joey’s face; he wanted to hit him square in the stomach


    16. The largaph repeated it with each foot, finally tricking Lezura with a feint, crouched and swept her feet off the ground


    17. He feint a blow at Morg’s foot, spun the opposite way and cut Morg across the chest


    18. A feint red hue


    19. kitchen noises could be heard together with the feint aroma of


    20. She could hear feint noises on the line as if her father was chewing unspoken words

    21. Other groups would head towards Gloucester and Bristol and a feint landing on the Norfolk coast was planned to draw off British reserves


    22. They considered Normandy to be merely a feint


    23. The Spanish authorities handed this over to the Germans, who learned from it that the Allied invasion was to start in Sardinia, combined with a feint attack on Sicily


    24. When the Allies invaded Sicily, it soon became clear that this was not a feint attack, and that the Germans had misjudged the situation entirely


    25. He was starting to feel feint


    26. I"ll try and feint her next assault


    27. Disturbance, Shooting Star', although it is impressive and sure but the feint is


    28. Although Nangong Ping’s this stroke looks solid but it was actually a feint


    29. Creator Island had used a feint called the ‘Capturing the Dragon with the Bare


    30. even try to evade his feint at all

    31. She was so terrified that her vision grew dim and she was afraid that she would feint


    32. Young Jerry, who had only made a feint of undressing when he went to bed, was not long after his father


    33. So much he wanted to rest on her that the feint of rest only tortured him


    34. that his first idea of this swoon being a feint, was not the very truth of the


    35. refinements of a finessed reluctance; adieu the friendly feint! She was


    36. He moves at me, but I feint toward him and he backs off


    37. Ralph stepped forward and lunged, but it was a feint


    38. "It seems that the circumstance of his going down, or sinking, which in my extreme ignorance I had mistaken for something very fatal, was no other than a trick of diving, which I had not ever heard, or at least attended o, the mention of: and he was so long-breathed at it, that in the few moments in which I ran out to save him, he had not yet emerged, before I fell into the swoon, in which, as he rose, seeing me extended on the bank, his first idea was, that some young woman was upon some design of frolic or diversion with him, for he knew I could not have fallen asleep there without his having seen me before: agreebly to which notion he had ventured to approach, and finding me without sign of life, and still perplexed as he was what to think of the adventure, he took me in his arms at all hazards, and carried me into the summer-house, of which he observed the door open: there he laid me down on the couch, and tried, as he protested in good faith, by several means to bring me to myself again, till fired, as he said, beyond all bearing by the sight and touch of several parts of me, which were unguardedly exposed to him, he could no longer govern his passion; and the less, as he was not quite sure that his first idea of this swoon being a feint, was not the very truth of the case; seduced then by this flattering notion, and overcome by the present, as he styled them, super-human temptations, combined with the solitude and seeming security of the attempt, he was not enough his own master not to make it


    39. friendly feint! She was presently driven forcibly out of the power of using any art; and indeed, what art must not give way, when nature, corresponding with her assailant, invaded in the heart of her capital and carried by storm, lay at the mercy of the proud conqueror, who had made his entry triumphantly and completely? Soon, however, to become a tributary: for the engagement growing hotter and hotter, at close quarters, she presently brought him to the pass of paying down the dear debt to nature; which she had no sooner collected in, but, like a duellist who has laid his antagonist at his feet, when he has himself received a mortal wound, Emily had scarce time to plume herself upon her victory, but, shot with the same discharge, she, in a loud expiring sigh, in the closure of her eyes, the stretch-out of her limbs, and a remission of her whole frame, gave manifest signs that all was as it should be


    40. Jekyll had returned to his own shape and was sitting down, with a darkened brow, to make a feint of breakfasting

    41. This was another feint, I thought


    42. A few brave men were strung before them to make a feint of resistance, and many there fell before the rest drew back and fled to either side


    43. The attack on Hougomont was something of a feint; the plan was to draw Wellington thither, and to make him swerve to the left


    44. The prowler executed the required feint, and said:—


    45. After the meal was over, Woloda made a feint of taking me by the arm, and then, fearing that this would seem too much like “affection,” nudged me gently by the elbow, and beckoned me towards the salon


    46. I know that some of the friends of the present Administration do consider the proposition as a mere feint, made for the purpose of putting a good face upon things, and of strengthening the hope of a successful negotiation, by exciting the apprehensions of the British Cabinet for the fate of their colonies


    1. Maldynado feinted and lunged only to find Sicarius’s blade pressed against his chest, his own uselessly wide


    2. Frank feinted a blow at the Gary’s face


    3. He reached for a quarterstaff near the door and feinted with it as he talked


    4. He feinted with the tip of his javelin and Artemis dodged


    5. I landed behind him with a splash and feinted toward his head, as I’d done before


    6. He feinted an entry, stepping back in time to avoid Reginald ‘ s blow, grabbing his arm and attempting to tear it off


    7. With machine like precision, JY feinted to the young pig‘s feet then caught him by the forehead as he lowered it to defend his feet


    8. ” He feinted a left, and threw a right – I caught his


    9. and Nihil feinted into the street, ducking back as the car swerved and dopplered past,


    10. He feinted a

    11. Ben feinted with his sword moving forward with his right hand, but then quickly changed the sword from his right hand to his left and thrust toward Len’s chest


    12. Ben feinted twice, moved his body to the left, and started his right hand, with the sword in it, to the right


    13. My mom feinted and I reversed the umbrella, and broke both legs


    14. Colin attacked the knee again to open the third round, then jabbed and feinted a couple of rushes, returning to the knee repeatedly


    15. Getting close, he feinted, making the cat lash out at thin air; then he delivered a carefully aimed strike right at the beast’ s head


    16. Cappy feinted, and Evans jerked his hand off the table


    17. He feinted with the knife once, then the blade slashed at me again


    18. Hudson screamed as he feinted one move, a second move, then he struck…


    19. I feinted to the left, then countered with an uppercut into his gut


    20. When Yuki feinted, Mori only batted the sword away with the back of his hand

    21. He feinted a thrust for Lucas’s belly


    1. While this was going on, the local levies on the far left began to melt away, apparently because they thought the jinetes were retreating instead of feinting


    2. Dodging and feinting, Tui's mantra was useless now


    3. It took three days before he stopped vomiting and feinting from the fear


    4. Furious at having been hit so quickly, Borisov stepped forward more cautiously this time, dancing around Nancy and searching for an opening while feinting repeatedly


    5. The leopard ambushed her, jinking, feinting, wrapping around her legs


    6. Lady Marchmain was not diffuse, but she took hold of her subject in a feminine, flirtatious way, circling, approaching, retreating, feinting; she hovered over it like a butterfly; she played 'grandmother's steps' with it, getting nearer the real point imperceptibly while one's back was turned, standing rooted when she was observed


    7. We danced betwixt the swaying Hammocks, feinting, thrusting, parrying, and playing Hide and Seek


    1. Mike pranced off to practice more feints and counter attacks, it was better seeing him this way than sedated


    2. the thrusts and parries, feints, and jabs as the soldiers attempted to break the defensive ring


    3. He pretended a mock adversary and did a few feints, a few parries, a few thrusts, and then, with his sword by his side, he stood waiting for Doog to come out of the tunnel


    4. This is where the large payoffs started, and then it became larger depending on how accurately the gambler predicted the number of hits, feints, thrusts, parries, and so on


    5. All of Ben's feints, thrusts, and parries were deft and accurate


    6. They had obviously wagered on a short match, and now, those who wagered most accurately, within the fifteen-second window, and on the number of thrusts, feints, parries, and rare maneuvers would be the big winners


    7. a couple more feints of undoing his trousers, his friends grabbed him, and removed his shoes and


    8. For he never means to swallow a single limb; he only thinks to terrify by feints


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    Synonyms for "feint"

    feint bluff fool mislead trick defraud

    "feint" definitions

    any distracting or deceptive maneuver (as a mock attack)


    deceive by a mock action