How to Use in the guise of in a Sentence

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• Even Ben Long sits, to the far right, in the guise of Doubting Thomas.
  — Washington Post, 7 May 2021
• Take, for example, The Nation of Plants, a polemic in the guise of a plea.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 20 Apr. 2021
• The broad strokes: Jupiter has arrived in the guise of a bull to take Europa against her will.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2021
• And in 2022, another big problem arrived in the guise of the war in Ukraine.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 11 Jan. 2023
• Alex Katz is 95, and still painting like a charging rhino in the guise of a Paris dandy.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2022
• Over the past eight years, the challenge of keeping it running has cloaked me in the guise of a car person.
  — Georgia Cloepfil, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2022
• This felt like a way to Trojan Horse, a bit of a social justice story in the guise of a true crime story.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• That afternoon, the reading was from Psalm 23, in which God, in the guise of a shepherd, leads his flock through the valley of the shadow of death.
  — Annalisa Quinn, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Nov. 2022
• Germany has promoted its own interests in the guise of doing what’s best for the EU.
  — Sudha David-Wilp, Foreign Affairs, 17 Apr. 2023
• Even in the guise of comedy, that kind of accusation should not be made lightly.
  — Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2023
• In the middle of the ceiling was a representation of Europa kidnapped by Jupiter in the guise of a bull, though the scene is incomplete.
  — Sarah Belmont For Artnews, Robb Report, 5 July 2023
• For instance, Duolingo, which in essence is a form in the guise of a quiz makes answering questions engaging.
  — Anne Quito, Quartz, 18 Oct. 2021
• The video opens on this all-time classic film, showcasing an actor in the guise of Sam the piano player tickling the ivories at Rick's Cafe in Casablanca.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 23 Feb. 2022
• The harshest critics contend S&P is trying to grab market share, in the guise of improving its model.
  — Leslie Scism, WSJ, 21 Apr. 2022
• The second is that the changes Congress made to the Affordable Care Act in the guise of pandemic relief are threatened with expiration at the end of this year.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2022
• The filibuster once was an outlaw move in the guise of a parliamentary procedure.
  — Washington Post, 5 July 2021
• The result was immersive, high kitsch theater in the guise of fashion, and some cobwebby mixed-media knits that were just plain magic.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
• Part of the experience of the album was the distinctive cover, in which the band appeared in the guise of the Lonely Hearts Club Band front and center in a sea of cultural figures.
  — Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Mar. 2022
• But what this means now, to the Alabamians assembled in 1901, is that to withstand court challenges, racist laws with racist effects will have to be wrapped in the guise of race neutrality.
  — al, 5 Dec. 2022
• Your mission for Week 1501 will be to come up with fresh observational humor about the irritants in life, in the guise of cheery helpfulness.
  — Pat Myers, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2022
• There is a real risk that in the guise of serving the regulated, regulators serve themselves.
  — Robert Zafft, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• There is a real risk that in the guise of serving the regulated, regulators serve themselves.
  — Robert Zafft, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• Together the two brands have created table clocks in the guise of tanks, jellyfish, spiders and spaceships.
  — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 19 Feb. 2022
• By this measure, George Stevens Jr. is a revolutionary in the guise of a movie-industry insider.
  — Peter Tonguette, WSJ, 21 July 2022
• At the boundary region between Indonesia and Vietnam, China may deploy its armed maritime militia, in the guise of fishing vessels, to stake its claim to the area.
  — Jill Goldenziel, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2022
• The agency said the professor had female students remove their shirts and wear only their bras in the guise of role-playing a medical assessment.
  — Corinne Dorsey, Washington Post, 28 June 2023
• The fact that it’s being posted on X in the guise of a discussion (and that it remains posted), only proves what data has been saying about X under Musk’s ownership.
  — Kylie Robison, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2023
• The move, in the guise of addressing the abuse and misuse of social media in Mauritius, is in essence a push to decrypt social media, including private messages.
  — Amindeh Blaise Atabong, Quartz, 8 July 2021
• Marie-Aurore de Saxe, a French noblewoman and freethinker, was painted in the guise of Diana, the huntress, wearing a leopard-print gown with billowing sleeves and a plunging bosom.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022
• President Tshisekedi, who will be seeking re-election in December, will use the issue in his campaign in the guise of righting the Kabila regime’s wrongs, observers have said.
  — Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 10 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024