Example sentences for: subterfuge

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

  • It may be that the final questions are the ones the investigators wanted to look at all along, so that the methodology is vulnerable to subterfuge.

  • While the ambassador on an island near Nicaragua prepares to bring in the Special Forces in case of a "full-scale effort," shadier men with terrorist friends and lots of experience in international subterfuge are busy plotting with "the other guy" to make such an "effort" occur.

  • The tabs were certainly taken in by Paul McCartney's subterfuge about where his wife spent her last days.

  • From there it was easy to make the transition to taking goods by subterfuge or by force.

  • We think of subterfuge and skulduggery to explain submulgery; coaxed by ensqualm, we recall ensnare, qualm, and squall; for bifaulgulate, ungulate and a host of words beginning with the prefix bi- come to mind.


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