Examples of ruse in a Sentence
His act was just a clever ruse to get me to go out with him.
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Matty, for her part, isn’t worried about getting in any real trouble if her ruse is uncovered.
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Noel Murray, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2025
But some of the writers fell for the alleged ruse, which eventually involved the literary agent from a company called PageTurner Press & Media asking for advance payments for services such as book insurance, hiring editors to help update the book or hiring publicists to promote it.
—Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Jan. 2025
Just a few weeks ago former contestant Rhea Mathew returned to the stage under the ruse of helping celebrate the show's 50th anniversary, only to be surprised by her boyfriend with a proposal.
—EW.com, 24 Jan. 2025
Litton, using the name Michael Sanders, had scheduled an appointment with Feather River Adventist School principal under the ruse of enrolling his nonexistent grandson.
—Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 17 Jan. 2025
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Noel Murray, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2025
But some of the writers fell for the alleged ruse, which eventually involved the literary agent from a company called PageTurner Press & Media asking for advance payments for services such as book insurance, hiring editors to help update the book or hiring publicists to promote it.
—Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Jan. 2025
Just a few weeks ago former contestant Rhea Mathew returned to the stage under the ruse of helping celebrate the show's 50th anniversary, only to be surprised by her boyfriend with a proposal.
—EW.com, 24 Jan. 2025
Litton, using the name Michael Sanders, had scheduled an appointment with Feather River Adventist School principal under the ruse of enrolling his nonexistent grandson.
—Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 17 Jan. 2025
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“Ruse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ruse. Accessed 10 Feb. 2025.
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Ruse
geographical name
Ru·se
ˈrü-(ˌ)sā 
variants
or Turkish Ruschuk
city in northeastern Bulgaria on the Danube River south of Bucharest population 148,500
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