Sentence examples for novel ruse from inspiring English sources

In mid April Citigroup shareholders rejected the bank's plan to pay its chief executive $15m £9.4mm) for a year during which its shares fell by 44% – and it seemed like such a novel ruse that others decided to join in the fun.

The pseudonymous Jay Russell's new novel, BROWN HARVEST (Four Walls Eight Windows, paper, $14.95), is crammed with ruses and red herrings, but the biggest mystery is why nobody ever thought of its ingeniously entertaining premise before.

In the novel, Blistier kills himself but Mr Le Pen blames the death on democrats, a ruse that Lindon says proves Mr Le Pen is not afraid to lie.

"The Unfathomable Ruse"?

Why this elaborate ruse?

Fraud, cheat, deception, ruse -.

The ruse worked.

The ruse succeeded.

But the ruse failed.

This ruse worked.

It was a ruse.