Sentence examples for successful ruse from inspiring English sources
But the neighborhood children's enthusiasm is infectious, and the boy's cautiously buoyed mood is such a relief that we share his satisfaction in the successful ruse.
"Double Cross," Mr. Macintyre's far-reaching account of elite double agents, winds up detailing the war's most complicated and successful ruse: the D-Day feat of deflecting German attention from the beaches of Normandy and successfully faking a different attack aimed at Calais, to the northeast.
Enron is the template for the decade of successful ruses that followed, Tiger's included.
His German credentials guaranteed by the successful De Havilland ruse in Britain, Mr. Chapman enjoyed enormous prestige in the Third Reich, where he assumed the status of a superspy.
The ruse was successful – and the last of the 617 Squadron Window-droppers witnessed German shore batteries firing on the "Ghost" convoy.
This ruse was successful enough that the rival Villa faction offered $15,000 to divert the shipment to a Villa-controlled port.
The ruse was successful: Montagu, who was monitoring Edward's march, could not convince his men to move against the Yorkist king.
It was used to forge orders to the forts' commanders to surrender, a ruse that was successful.
The ruse proved so successful that when Spencer Tracy came to visit, his taxi driver refused to drive up to the house, saying, "I hear they shoot!" Tracy had to go the rest of the way on foot.
