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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Frank This character doing all the heavy lifting to keep Rick’s ruse afloat and Sam Rockwell doing all the heavy lifting to keep this plot interesting: Thank you for your service, gentlemen.
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Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 31 Mar. 2025
This is, of course, a ruse to put Rick in the same room with Jim, who, according to his mother on her deathbed, killed his do-gooder dad.
—Judy Berman, Time, 31 Mar. 2025
The preposterous plot begins with the band of brothers (and savvy sisters, too) in search of an unclaimed corpse, disguising it as a Royal Marine officer, and creating a fictional persona to make their ruse credible.
—Frank Rizzo, Variety, 21 Mar. 2025
However, even after all of this, Riley tried to keep up the ruse on social media.
—Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 26 Feb. 2025
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Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 31 Mar. 2025
This is, of course, a ruse to put Rick in the same room with Jim, who, according to his mother on her deathbed, killed his do-gooder dad.
—Judy Berman, Time, 31 Mar. 2025
The preposterous plot begins with the band of brothers (and savvy sisters, too) in search of an unclaimed corpse, disguising it as a Royal Marine officer, and creating a fictional persona to make their ruse credible.
—Frank Rizzo, Variety, 21 Mar. 2025
However, even after all of this, Riley tried to keep up the ruse on social media.
—Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 26 Feb. 2025
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“Ruse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ruse. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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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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