ruses
Example Sentences
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Skipton’s devious ruses and desperate escapades prove diverting.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026
The specific issue with the windbreakers was that ICE agents were engaging in various ruses to get people to open the door.
From Slate • Jul. 3, 2025
The interactions between these characters, their relationships and ruses, their hopes and hypocrisies, form the narrative backbone to “Transatlantic.”
From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2023
His direction helped me appreciate the deeper Shakespearean meaning of the play’s merry ruses.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2023
Desdemona had to devise elaborate ruses to satisfy him, telling him that our kitchen was the Zebra Room, only redecorated, and lamenting at how bad business was.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
