How to Use guise in a Sentence

guise

noun
  • Even Ben Long sits, to the far right, in the guise of Doubting Thomas.
    — Washington Post, 7 May 2021
  • The franchise’s first game in its new guise will come on the road.
    — Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 12 Sep. 2020
  • Work meetings are held in the flat, under the guise of soirees.
    — Lara Prendergast, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Take, for example, The Nation of Plants, a polemic in the guise of a plea.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 20 Apr. 2021
  • And too much time has passed for Friend A to claim the former under the guise of the latter.
    — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Even the look on her face alters, a flat guise replaced by a scowl.
    — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Think of Succession, but in the guise of a chintzy, 90-minute horror movie.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 22 Aug. 2019
  • In a sense, Angelos is right about that: His guise is easy to see through.
    — Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Moon and his friend met with the other group under the guise of selling them an iPhone 6 for $400.
    — Adam Ferrise, cleveland, 26 Mar. 2021
  • The first batch arrived three years later, under the guise that the force would stand on its own two feet.
    — Hollie McKay, Fox News, 26 Aug. 2020
  • The bot appears in human guise—a young man in a bow tie—perched in a window on the display.
    — Steven Levy, WIRED, 24 Feb. 2023
  • If lessons are learned, they should be smuggled in under the guise of laughs and kisses.
    — The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Under the guise of sleeping over at Libby’s, the pair hightail it to New York City.
    — Courtney Howard, Variety, 29 Mar. 2022
  • All would come under the guise of respect for local norms.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 17 Mar. 2025
  • All would come under the guise of respect for local norms.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Audience members will take on the guise of FBI recruits working the case with the help of a guide.
    — Deborah Martin, ExpressNews.com, 12 Oct. 2020
  • The Montero comes into this world in either base or Sport guise, but the Raider is a synthesis of the two.
    — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 1 July 2023
  • Help is on horizon in the guise of new and expanded state park campgrounds.
    — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 May 2021
  • The Maos are all in various guises, such as Mao the farmer and Mao the ping-pong champion.
    — Steve Bennett, San Antonio Express-News, 11 June 2018
  • Van der Weyden is believed to have painted himself in the guise of Saint Luke.
    — Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2021
  • In its new guise as an Israeli tanker, signs remain of the aircraft’s past life, a reminder of its age.
    — Nic Robertson, CNN, 30 Sep. 2024
  • The land had been taken from them in 1924 under the guise of eminent domain.
    — Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 28 June 2022
  • In the video, the artist presents herself dancing to pulsing club music in a number of guises.
    — Roger Catlin, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Offices are one of the first things that may emerge in a different guise as a result of the pandemic.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2020
  • The oddball guise is one of many that Alvarez has dreamed up and posted to social media since 2020.
    — Shane Barnes, Pitchfork, 12 Oct. 2023
  • One of his colleagues then lured Guevara to his death under the guise of going to meet women.
    — Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2020
  • This isn't the first time Kiss has toured under the guise of a goodbye — the band staged a farewell tour nearly two decades ago — but this one seems to be the real deal.
    — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 14 Nov. 2019
  • Rio uses her own guise of Federal Agent Vidal to get close to Agatha in order to break the hex.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Catering to both the young adult crowd looking ahead to their futures and melancholy millennials looking back to a bygone time, Broken Toys has the potential to land on screens in several guises.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 7 Mar. 2025
  • As actors reemerge in different guises, there’s a sense of déjà vu exacerbated by the film’s approach to production design.
    — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 12 Mar. 2025

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