Sentence examples for a total ruse from inspiring English sources

"It's a total ruse.

A person with knowledge of the situation later described the alleged technical problem as "a total ruse"—in reality, frenzied talks between the Party and Cuomo were still underway until the last possible second.

The Administration's ruse of truck safety flew in the face of a total lack of evidence and years of peaceful trade.

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.

This is neither a ruse nor a ploy.

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

This is a common ruse.

But it is actually a calculated ruse to facilitate escape.