Example sentences for: guise

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

  • In the guise of a lorgnette-waving, muff-carrying, white-gloved creature named Miss Manners, Judith Martin, a reporter for the Washington Post , launched an etiquette column in 1978.

  • Instead, he attacks his morality in the guise of attacking his art.

  • The paper is to be applauded for closing the story with phone numbers for donors to call--a nice change from the tendency news sections too often exhibit of viewing the guise of objectivity as more important than actually helping somebody.

  • The Parthenon was dedicated to Athena and means Temple of the Virgin — Athena in her guise as protector of the city, goddess of wisdom and justice.

  • The NYT front says the U.S. government admitted Thursday that a U.S. spy went into Iraq in the guise of a UN weapons inspector and left an eavesdropping device behind that for ten months allowed the U.S. and "a select elite" within the UN team to monitor the communications of the officers who protect Saddam Hussein and conceal his weapons of mass destruction.


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