Sentence examples for ruse of from inspiring English sources

It's a ruse, of course.

— under the ruse of going duck hunting — to sketch a blueprint.

Isn't it wiser to be a temple, insidiously leading the faithful through the ruse of entertainment into its sacred heart?

Although this ruse of leading your weakest suit as early as possible is well known, it continues to work.

A crowd of reporters was moved away from the scene with the ruse of a news briefing.

Relatives had taken her into the countryside under the ruse of a day-trip to pick oranges.

He would pretend, too, that he never read the paper, which was quite clearly a ruse of some kind.

Even when we're alone, he won't drop the ruse of being a dedicated paleoceanographer deeply concerned about rising sea levels.

This ruse of Mourinho's – beating the media with their own team's lack of self-control – is as old as the hills.

There is the age-old ruse of hiding them in plain sight by baking the spinach purée into the banana bread.

Typically, raiders chased down enemy ships or lured them into close range with the ruse of "false colors"— by flying the flag of a foreign country.