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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Both these ruses are reverberating, setting the U.S. up to be a worse, more racially unjust country.
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Robert L. Nelson, Scientific American, 30 July 2024
The ruse of spending like a big-market team didn’t even last a full season.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 30 July 2024
As the July 28 date draws near, opposition leaders have composed a list of potential fraud strategies and ruses that could be implemented by the regime to disrupt the vote.
—Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 18 July 2024
Three men have been arrested after being accused of posing as construction workers in a ruse to burglarize more than 30 homes in wealthy neighborhoods, California police say.
—Daniella Segura, Sacramento Bee, 10 July 2024
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Robert L. Nelson, Scientific American, 30 July 2024
The ruse of spending like a big-market team didn’t even last a full season.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 30 July 2024
As the July 28 date draws near, opposition leaders have composed a list of potential fraud strategies and ruses that could be implemented by the regime to disrupt the vote.
—Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 18 July 2024
Three men have been arrested after being accused of posing as construction workers in a ruse to burglarize more than 30 homes in wealthy neighborhoods, California police say.
—Daniella Segura, Sacramento Bee, 10 July 2024
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“Ruse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ruse. Accessed 11 Sep. 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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