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

It was a military intervention unacknowledged by Moscow, shrouded in a fog of ruses and denials so improbable that few were deceived.

From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2024

Baker is continually seeking ways of holding an audience captive without resorting to the normal ruses of conventional plotting.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 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