How to Use ruse in a Sentence

ruse

noun
Definition of rusenext
Synonyms for rusenext
  • His act was just a clever ruse to get me to go out with him.
  • The man who had sold Fuzzell the fentanyl, Cole Salazar, fell for the ruse.
    — Erin Patrick O'Connor, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The ruse failed, and he was sentenced to five years in jail.
    — Ben Oliver, Robb Report, 24 Sep. 2023
  • The Byrdes agree to help, in order to maintain the ruse.
    — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 1 May 2022
  • There’s a use for such a ruse, even if that use is oblique.
    — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2023
  • This is known as a ruse, and it’s been deemed legal by the courts.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2022
  • Yet, what if the app is all a ruse to help candidates get elected?
    — John Brandon, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Michael puts in a good effort with the ruse, but Brittany is an awful liar.
    — Kyle Fowle, EW.com, 11 July 2022
  • The ruse of school choice left Aja’s mother with few options for her daughter.
    — TIME, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Or maybe there was a single target and the other deaths were a ruse to cover it up.
    — Chicago Tribune, 22 Sep. 2022
  • The worker fell for the ruse and gave the hacker a password which was then used to access Uber's systems.
    — Matthew Humphries, PCMAG, 16 Sep. 2022
  • The Kremlin dismissed the reports as a ruse, saying the U.S. was likely behind the blasts.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2023
  • The Institute for the Study of War agreed the truce could be a ruse allowing Russia to regroup.
    — Andrew Meldrum, ajc, 6 Jan. 2023
  • But the sunset is a ruse, since Democrats plan to renew the child allowance ad infinitum.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 21 Oct. 2021
  • The government later learned this was all a ruse on Worrell's part.
    — Robert Legare, CBS News, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Somehow, both Napoleon and Benjamin Franklin were reported to have been taken in by the ruse.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2022
  • When the ruse is revealed, mother and daughter have to rebuild their faith in each other.
    — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 28 July 2022
  • Dumbfounded, Alex swallows her questions and goes along with the ruse.
    — Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 June 2022
  • Schwartzkopf surveilled Miller for a couple of days before devising a ruse to get him to a north Phoenix Chili's restaurant.
    — Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Then came what was perhaps the most important part of the ruse: My dad printed signs and posted them all over the building.
    — Micaela MacAgnone, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2023
  • But those endorsements were a ruse by EthereumMax's creators to inflate the price of the token, the complaint states.
    — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 13 Jan. 2022
  • But the ruse is quickly over, and the film shows its true colors with violent and exciting badassery.
    — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2022
  • The hotel video shows no paparazzi outside the back entrance, but the decoy ruse clearly hasn’t worked.
    — Jocelyn Noveck, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2022
  • The husband realized the man was attempting a ruse burglary and called him a liar, prompting the man to leave the house, police said.
    — Pioneer Press Staff, chicagotribune.com, 1 Mar. 2022
  • It’s not just a ruse for these conspiracy groups to raise money, but also to raise hell.
    — Jeffrey Glassberg, Scientific American, 18 Feb. 2022
  • In April, D’Amico was sentenced to 27 months in prison for leading a move that prosecutors allege was a ruse right from the get-go.
    — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 25 July 2022
  • Had all of the allusions to Russia and Russian-language snippets been a ruse?
    — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 1 Nov. 2022
  • The scammers were committed to the ruse, though, and Gallagher received a few audio and video messages from the woman in the photo.
    — WIRED, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Many people seemed to view its transition to Meta mostly as a ruse to distract from bad press, and the new name fell flat for those outside the tech sphere.
    — Heather Kelly, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2022
  • This doesn't mean the Democrats are engaging in a deliberate ruse.
    — Damon Linker, The Week, 19 Oct. 2021

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