Sample Sentences for
ruse
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    ...part of some great ruse to get Adam in to see me.  (source)
    ruse = deceptive maneuver
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    I get to park in front now since Miss Celia finally dropped the ruse and told Mister Johnny what he already knew.  (source)
    ruse = deception
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    I found myself not listening, merely looking at his mouth, which moved—or so it seemed to me—independent of the words, as if the body of the stranger were a ruse, a disguise for something infinitely more terrible.  (source)
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    Then he dragged out a mattress and laid it over the hatch and from inside he pulled it up over the plywood and carefully lowered the door so that the mattress covered it completely. It wasn't much of a ruse but it was better than nothing.  (source)
    ruse = an action (such as a trick or lie) that hides the truth
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    His frequent absences from home at night, which were hailed by the Prefect as certain aids to his success, I regarded only as ruses, to afford opportunity for thorough search to the police, and thus the sooner to impress them with the conviction to which G—, in fact, did finally arrive—the conviction that the letter was not upon the premises.  (source)
    ruses = actions (such as a tricks or lies) that hide the truth
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    Under the ruse of giving an academic lecture, I was trying to put myself in a bottle that would one day wash up on the beach for my children.  (source)
    ruse = deceptive maneuver
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    Simon is alerted: he is familiar with such ruses, he knows the cabals of mothers.†  (source)
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    But because he hadn't shown up yet to pick them up from the salon, she guessed she'd been right in thinking that the whole thing had been a ruse to see her again.  (source)
    ruse = an action (such as a trick or lie) that hides the truth
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    With the help of your Red brethren, you deceived us with technological tricks and ruses, infiltrating my own family.†  (source)
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    Even if they think it's a ruse, I hope they'll decide I'm hidden somewhere near it.†  (source)
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    Why the ruses and deceit?†  (source)
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    This way Mr. Broks can read the letter without suspecting a ruse.†  (source)
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    But by ruses and coercion, his family had taken him away from her—and the lad had probably been repulsed by her illness, too, which by then had begun to evidence itself in various violent eruptions.†  (source)
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