How to Use ruse in a Sentence

ruse

noun

• 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
• The stash house, though, turned out to be a ruse concocted by the FBI.
  — Jason Meisner, chicagotribune.com, 18 June 2019
• But to them, policosanols are a ruse — the goal is to patent all panela.
  — New York Times, 26 Jan. 2021
• In 2013, an unidentified tipster told the FBI of the ruse.
  — Deanna Weniger, Twin Cities, 29 July 2019
• In that meeting, Ferguson talked about the ruse, the FBI said.
  — John Caniglia, cleveland, 7 May 2021
• Officials said the ruse was two months in the planning stages.
  — New York Times, 1 June 2018
• People are still in the throes of an elaborate ruse and lies.
  — Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Sep. 2024
• Holland wouldn't also play a ruse around a Maguire and Garfield cameo, right?
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 24 Feb. 2021
• The view from here is that the landscape restoration plan is a ruse to get rid of a building that should be saved.
  — Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 13 July 2018
• The two bicker about whether or not the ruse even looks believable.
  — Patricia Hernandez, The Verge, 31 Aug. 2018
• Some took day trips to nearby towns, to play out the ruse and scout other targets to raid.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2021
• The ruse of spending like a big-market team didn’t even last a full season.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 30 July 2024
• At the same time, as with HQ2, the ruse fell apart under the lightest scrutiny.
  — Casey Newton, The Verge, 16 Aug. 2019
• 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
• If the Ryanair diversion is shown to be a ruse, that trust could erode not just over Belarus, but around the world.
  — Benjamin Katz, WSJ, 25 May 2021
• Who better to carry out the ruse than a guy who can do both equally well?
  — cleveland, 14 Aug. 2020
• The ruse was believed to bring more than 1,000 people to the area, tying up traffic for hours.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2024
• In reality, the town was just a name on a map and the fertiliser plant was a ruse.
  — The Economist, 8 Dec. 2020
• The ruse of school choice left Aja’s mother with few options for her daughter.
  — TIME, 13 Oct. 2023
• Here is the video of his ruse with Georgia football coach Kirby Smart.
  — Ray Glier, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021
• 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 hackers used information found on the employee’s LinkedIn profile to pull off the ruse.
  — Lisa Rabasca Roepe, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024
• Agatha had put Ralph under a spell, forcing him to play Wanda’s brother Pietro in her ruse to steal Wanda’s dark magic.
  — Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 19 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024