forgery - use in sentences

Preposition: of

  • document: He was found guilty of fraudulently evading £ 200m in tax and forgery of documents.

Converse of object

  • sell: If a seller is consciously selling forgeries he will feel no shame also issuing bogus certificates.
  • commit: Anyone who commits forgery in that context is guilty of a criminal offense.
  • prevent: The attempts to prevent forgery from a skilled engraver were certainly not on the scale of today's complex designs.
  • include: There were other problems with the letter, including an unsuccessful forgery of the president's signature.
  • make: Can't they even try to make a decent forgery?

Adjective modifier

  • deliberate: There is a specific provision to protect the buyer if the object turns out to be counterfeit, a deliberate modern forgery.
  • obvious: For instance, he admitted that the Gospel of Barnabas is an obvious forgery.
  • late: Many accused Daniel of being a late forgery and ignorant of the facts.

Modifies a noun

  • charge: Green went to trial on the forgery charges, and was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment, which he served in Brixton.
  • case: He got himself into a fog recently over a forgery case, and that was what brought him here.

Noun used with modifier

  • century: This has lead many commentators to the conclusion that the so called prophesy is nothing more than an elaborate 14th century forgery.
  • art: Arson, murder, art forgery, con artists, you name it, you got it.
  • document: The local prosecutor is investigating the case of document forgery.
  • check: However the greatest asset he had as a con man was not his check forgery skills but his plausible manner.

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