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Example sentences for "disguise"

Lexicographically close words:
disgracefully; disgraces; disgracing; disgracious; disgruntled; disguised; disguises; disguising; disguisings; disgust
  1. For the propitiation of Kodababbu, Nalkes are engaged to put on the disguise of this bhutha, whereas Bakudas themselves dress up for the propitiation of Kamberlu in cocoanut leaves tied round the head and waist.

  2. They generally visit some place far away from their residence, and there disguise themselves as Madari fakirs, adding Shah to their names.

  3. He could not believe that such a scene and such a mood could be the disguise of any impending evil, and all his doubts and anxieties fell away from him.

  4. I will add that this disguise was found in Mr. Blunt's room.

  5. When you heard about the man in the theatre proposing the three groans, didn't you recognize from his description that it was somebody with your disguise on?

  6. Well, sir, I have never cheated nor done anything dishonorable; but I did have this disguise and 'Frenched' out in Annapolis several times with it on.

  7. Captain, I owned it; the disguise is mine.

  8. I have thought that perhaps Mr. Blunt is charged with having used that disguise last night; is that so, sir?

  9. Did you detect a person in that disguise in the act of stealing an examination last night?

  10. Last night, father, I got to worrying about that disguise and at about midnight I went to the office and got them.

  11. That Sunday afternoon the Naval Academy was in an uproar, for the complete history of Harry Blunt's disguise had become known to all midshipmen, and every one of them was fascinated and intensely amused at his daring.

  12. My son admits that the disguise is his property, and has been for months; but he most solemnly assures me he was not with you last night, that he was not out of this building after seven o'clock.

  13. The night before, sir, Saturday night, I went after my disguise intending to use it, and it was missing.

  14. This he did, the captain not being able to disguise his joy and pride at this most unexpected honour.

  15. I think I could disguise my anxiety sufficiently.

  16. Spies surrounded the houses of all the generals, dukes, and princes of the empire, and it was only in disguise and by the greatest dexterity that they could evade the vigilance of the police.

  17. Hortense then procured all that was necessary to the disguise of the young men as liveried servants, and ordered her carriage to be held in readiness for her departure.

  18. As part of the prince's disguise had been a thick beard, the men did not recognise the dead man as the rajah's brother; but they wrapped the head in a cloth, and buried the body as their commander bade them.

  19. She is clad in a snowy gown of simple cotton, that sits loosely to her lissom figure yet fails to disguise the beauty of it.

  20. They were covered with a sort of leathern armor, and this concealed their fleshless ribs; but nothing could disguise the shambling and uncertain gait with which they painfully ambled across the arena under the savage spurring of their riders.

  21. Thus, usually only the face is shown; and when a maiden or a matron wishes to disguise herself, she draws the shawl up so as to cover her mouth and nose, and permit only her great black, roguish eyes to be seen.

  22. For each is the all unto himself, disguise it as we may, Each infinite, each most precious; yet even as a nothing to his neighbour.

  23. But hardly had they entered, when they flung off their disguise and appeared in Spanish armour, while a shout of "St. James for Spain!

  24. But do what he might to disguise it, so long as he is ranging over his story at a height, chronicling, summarizing, foreshortening, he must be present to the reader as a narrator and a showman.

  25. But it is not worth while to linger here; the use of the first person has other and more interesting snares than this, that it pretends to disguise unmeaning, inexpressive form in a story.

  26. At the beginning of that month, the Earl of Mar, in company with General Hamilton and Colonel Hay, had embarked at Gravesend, on the Thames, all in disguise and under assumed names.

  27. You will scarcely stop the lord admiral, going in disguise to Dover to make a secret inspection of the fleet?

  28. It seemed an odd freak, this ride in disguise for the mere purpose of a visit to Paris.

  29. The return of the prince was a strikingly different affair from that mad ride in disguise a few months before, which spread suspicion at every step, and filled England with rage when the story became known.

  30. Prince Charles finally took for wife that Princess Henrietta Maria of France whom he and Buckingham had first seen dancing in a royal masque, during their holiday visit in disguise to Paris.

  31. But the attentions shown the prince were compromising, in consideration of his disguise as a groom; suspicions were likely to be aroused, and it was felt necessary that he should seek a new asylum.

  32. We shall, of course, disguise our position from the world.

  33. I have learnt that disguise is a very important part of one's education.

  34. He liked Mary Bethel, had liked her very much indeed, but he had known that his aunt disapproved of them and had been careful to disguise his meetings.

  35. Of all the poet's work, this tale of the rescue of Guinevere by her lover seems to express most closely the ideals of Marie's court ideals in which devotion and courtesy but thinly disguise free love.

  36. But she could not lie, and she could not disguise the truth from herself.

  37. He did not disguise it to himself, nor attempt to palliate it.

  38. Pinault would have been the master for me if he had not in some strange way striven to disguise and distort the best traits in his talent.

  39. Religion is the form behind which the Celtic races disguise their love of the ideal, but it would be a mistake to imagine that religion is to them a tie or a servitude.

  40. The types are often inconsistent with each other; and sometimes the allegorical disguise is altogether thrown off.

  41. His merriment is without disguise or restraint.

  42. Every trick of expression, from the mysterious conciseness of an oracle to the flippancy of a Parisian coxcomb, is employed to disguise the fallacy of some positions, and the triteness of others.

  43. Wycherley reclaimed his papers, in a letter in which resentment shows itself plainly through the thin disguise of civility.

  44. I was to disguise myself as a man, which nature made easy for me, and my real personality was to be our chief safeguard.

  45. She did not disguise from herself the feelings this man inspired.

  46. I did not discover my loss till I returned my disguise to the secret hut.

  47. On one occasion Helen ventured to remark upon it in her inconsequent fashion, a fashion often used to disguise her real feelings, her real interest.

  48. The two men set off for the saloon without attempting to disguise their purpose.

  49. Monk's disguise to her quieter companion, and speaking in the soft dialect of old Louisiana, "now you get a good idea of heaven!

  50. In spite of your disguise I thought I recognized you, and when you presented arms to my brother Henry, I recognized you perfectly.

  51. Henry, informed by La Mole that De Mouy would be present in some disguise or other, looked round on all sides.

  52. You may dress a puncher in his last coffin, but no disguise short of that will spoil his riding.

  53. Don't you think yo' disguise would pass for something in the way of striped squir'ls?

  54. By way of disguise she had a wig all sideways, and female clothes which she'd never learned to wear.

  55. Already he could not disguise from himself that she had become the one woman.

  56. As evening closed in, I could no longer disguise the fact that the scourge was upon me, and I felt that I should have medical advice without delay.

  57. It was the attitude no longer of a secret agent, wearing the mien and mask of his profession, but of a military spy, who stands before a subordinate when disguise is superfluous.


  58. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "disguise" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acting; affectation; appearance; assume; becloud; belie; blanket; blind; bluff; burlesque; camouflage; caricature; charade; cloak; cloud; color; coloring; conceal; contrast; costume; cover; curtain; deception; delusion; difference; disguise; disparity; dissemblance; distort; divergence; diversity; doctor; dress; eclipse; embellish; embroider; ensconce; enshroud; envelop; equip; exaggerate; facade; face; falsify; falsity; feint; fit; fraud; front; fudge; gild; gilt; gloss; guise; habit; hide; humbug; imposture; incognito; makeup; mantle; mask; masque; masquerade; misquote; misrepresent; motley; muffler; mummery; obscure; occult; ostentation; outfit; outside; overdraw; overstate; pageant; palliate; parody; pervert; pose; posing; posture; pretence; pretense; pretension; pretext; representation; rig; screen; secrete; seeming; semblance; shade; sham; shape; show; shroud; simulacrum; simulation; slant; sock; speciousness; strain; suit; travesty; twist; understate; varnish; vary; veil; veneer; visor; warp; whitewash; wraps; wrench