Sentence examples similar to a small ruse from inspiring English sources

When CNN answered I immediately asked for the Latin American Desk and waited interminably for someone to answer, all the while roaming within a small circle to continue the ruse of difficulty.

The Russians used a ruse to entice Gazan into an attack on a small force, and then trapped him between two columns.

It's a setup, a ruse.

SENATOR CORCORAN: Marvellou — A WHAT? ME: A ruse, gentlemen, gentlewomen.

This is a ruse, a ploy.

The whole guns-at-midnight thing could have been a ruse, a detailed and protracted ruse.

Thus, nonviolence is a misnomer, or somewhat of a ruse.

That "value" was more a ruse than an objective?

I wouldn't put it past a very small minority of deviant people to use the transgender ruse".

"It's a total ruse.

This is a common ruse.