Examples of ruse in a Sentence
His act was just a clever ruse to get me to go out with him.
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That helped exacerbate existing rumors that polio vaccinations were a Western ruse to sterilize Muslim girls, which led to the killing of more than 200 polio vaccine workers by Islamist extremists from 2012 to 2016.
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Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 2 May 2024
Tom spends the rest of the story signing into various Italian hotels as Signor Greenleaf, and writing letters and cashing checks with forged signatures to keep up the ruse that Dickie is alive but off the grid.
—Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 19 Apr. 2024
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Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 2 May 2024
Tom spends the rest of the story signing into various Italian hotels as Signor Greenleaf, and writing letters and cashing checks with forged signatures to keep up the ruse that Dickie is alive but off the grid.
—Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 19 Apr. 2024
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“Ruse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ruse. Accessed 29 May. 2024.
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Ruse
geographical name
Ru·se
ˈrü-(ˌ)sā 
variants
or Turkish Ruschuk
city in northeastern Bulgaria on the Danube River south of Bucharest population 148,500
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