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Example sentences for: artifice

How can you use “artifice” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

There's the strain of finding something to argue about in every big news event, the artifice of dividing every controversy into two sides labeled "left" and "right."
And as the public comes to believe instead that Clinton's flexibility and artifice led to the Wye agreement, the agreement's antagonists--or even its reluctant signers--will be tempted to demand that the terms be revised, arguing that Clinton deceived them and figuring that he will bend under pressure.
No artifice assists these honeylike waves.
There are moments when all artifice fails, and you realize you are regarding desperate actors, trapped on the screen, fully aware they've been left hanging out to dry."
Truman must leave the studio/world, Julia Roberts must escape the cameras (ditto Ed in EDTV ), the kids in Pleasantville are stuck in a "TV artifice of life and must break through it in order to get back to their real existences."