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Example sentences for: ruse

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

All the crappy drawing and "family situation comedy" is a ruse.
Which of the following are from recent New York Times articles and which are a clever ruse, like those cardboard tanks the English built in World War II to trick Germans looking for plywood tanks?
Fortified with that realization, I went back to the text and saw at once--even in the title-- that the straight-faced phrasing of the article was really just a ruse, and that an ironic reading was the only one possible.
All the while portraying the GOP's focus on facts as a cowardly ruse to "hide behind the curtain" of jury scruple.
The happy Sambo, Stampp claimed, was just a ruse.