Sample Sentences for
guise
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    The text of the Constitution has frequently been rewritten by the Supreme Court in the guise of interpretation.  (source)
    guise = outward appearance
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    Big Brother is the guise in which the Party chooses to exhibit itself to the world.  (source)
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    And at Buchenwald, as I was to learn, death came in many guises.  (source)
    guises = outward appearances
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    And again he would do it under the guise of granting me safety.†  (source)
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    IN MARIN THERE WERE almost no natives, these people having died out or been exterminated long ago, and one would see them only occasionally, at impromptu trading posts—or perhaps more often, but wrapped in clothes and guises and behaviors indistinguishable from anyone else.†  (source)
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    However, the mechanism of dis-guised dream content can still be intact.†  (source)
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    The Earth sometimes came in the guise of an old woman and brought him presents.†  (source)
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    At the age of ten, Alessandro had not known the further meanings of words like rest and peace, and although now he did, he realized that he would never fully know the mountains in all their guises and enchantments.†  (source)
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    No sooner had Northern armies touched Southern soil than this old question, newly guised, sprang from the earth,—What shall be done with Negroes?†  (source)
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    He bent under the guise of adjusting his boot, and Celaena saw a small dagger glint in the sunlight.†  (source)
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    They're doing all the things that college freshmen have been doing, under various guises and with various aids, since the first tenderfoot left home for Harvard in 1636.†  (source)
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    The ground was uneven, and the fallen needles dis guised the softness of the turf and made the footing treacherous for the horses, so they had to go slowly.†  (source)
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    I don't really want to be subjected to them for longer periods of time under the guise of a team.†  (source)
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