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Example sentences for "masquerade"

Lexicographically close words:
masonry; masons; masque; masqued; masquer; masqueraded; masquerader; masqueraders; masquerades; masquerading
  1. The merchant masquerade was wholly outclassed by this new display of the make-up art.

  2. As she described the masquerade frolic, she contrasted Roney's lonely shut-in life with her own and the other girls' at the seminary.

  3. We are about to close the masquerade by the dance of death.

  4. Conspirators, however much they might masquerade in the raiment of Loyalty, could not wholly conceal the ear-marks of Treason.

  5. She, during this time, was at the scene of pleasure she had painted to herself, and all the pleasure it gave her was, that she was sure she should never desire to go to a masquerade again.

  6. They will pursue their plans with a degree of concurrence amounting nearly to sympathy; and thus had Kate and her mother, until this morning, kept up the masquerade so well that the Viscount was as confiding as a country Corydon.

  7. But the masquerade is ended, and I hope you and Edward will not only treat him as an earl, but receive him as a son.

  8. Since the masquerade she has cordially hated me.

  9. She and I have been on the outs since that Valentine masquerade last year.

  10. Why, we were all at the masquerade that night.

  11. To please their lonely hostess they dressed in the costumes they intended wearing at the masquerade the next evening.

  12. The very irony of this masquerade fired him with terrible anger.

  13. Now despite the fact that the Baron had hinted that Ronador's masquerade was at an end, the music-machine steadily approached and halted.

  14. A masquerade was given to the officers--and the scene was gay and picturesque.

  15. New England town; nor was the character of any of the parties involved, of a nature to make the association of this masquerade gear with the tragedy gone by seem either possible or even probable.

  16. That is strange in so close a reasoner and in one who maintained that all language was a masquerade of words, and that the class to which they grammatically belonged had nothing to do with the class of ideas they represented.

  17. He might as well have presented himself at the levee in a fancy or masquerade dress.

  18. A masquerade and fancy dress ball took place at Norwich Theatre.

  19. The Stagyrite discovered that our nature delights in imitation, and perhaps in nothing more than in representing personages different from ourselves in mockery of them; in fact, there is a passion for masquerade in human nature.

  20. When I got back Le Duc told me that I had been wise to slip away, as my masquerade had become generally known, and the whole house, including the landlord, had been eagerly waiting to see me play the part of waiter.

  21. I knew she had recognized me, and the thought that I could not carry the masquerade beyond a certain point was a veritable torment to me.

  22. As a last resource the magicians of Stadaconé devised a plan to frighten the obstinate Frenchman, but the crude masquerade arranged for that purpose provoked nothing but amusement.

  23. Now I realize the cause of your masquerade and know you were justified.

  24. The evident distress of the girl riding beside me, whose tale, I felt sure, would fully justify her strange masquerade in male garments, her risk of life and exposure to disgrace in midst of fighting armies, held me neglectful of all else.

  25. I never saw anybody enter so strongly into the spirit of a masquerade as she did.

  26. Your sisters and I mean to go; 'tis the only masquerade I wish them to go to.

  27. It was a wild masquerade of all imaginable costumes--every struggling throng in every street was a dissolving view of stunning contrasts.

  28. Your sweet eyes are all puffed up and you won’t be fit for the masquerade ball if you cry any more.

  29. When he descended from his wife’s apartments, where he had gone to display himself in his masquerade dress, he was certainly a magnificent and picturesque figure.

  30. I should never have thought of doubting you, had not mine own eyes seen you at the masquerade with a certain fair sorceress whose spells are far more dangerous than sword or bullet.

  31. While the masquerade ball of life goes on, they trip merrily over the floor, gemmed hand is stretched to gemmed hand, gleaming brow bends to gleaming brow.

  32. The hazers had worn their masquerade costumes under their dominos, having been told by Leslie that they would not be more than an hour at the untenanted house.

  33. The day following the masquerade the sophomore team sent the junior team an acceptance of their challenge.

  34. It had begun to enforce itself upon her that she had been hoaxed into visiting an empty house by those who had taken advantage of the masquerade to carry out their plan without undue notice to themselves.

  35. After the masquerade is over we'll then turn our undivided attention to laying the juniors up for the winter.

  36. The evening of the St. Valentine masquerade was always a gala one on the campus.

  37. I came over to see if I could go to the masquerade with you girls.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "masquerade" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    act; acting; affectation; appearance; ball; blowout; bluff; burrow; camouflage; characterization; color; coloring; costume; cover; dance; deception; delusion; dinner; disappear; disguise; dissemblance; dress; embodiment; enactment; entertainment; equip; facade; face; falsity; fantasy; feint; festivity; fit; fraud; front; gilt; gloss; habit; hide; hop; housewarming; humbug; imitation; impersonation; imposture; incarnation; incognito; mask; masque; masquerade; mimicry; miming; mixer; motley; muffler; mummery; ostentation; outfit; pantomime; party; performance; performing; personation; personification; playing; portrayal; pose; posing; posture; pretence; pretense; pretension; pretext; promenade; representation; rig; seeming; semblance; sham; shindy; show; shower; simulacrum; simulation; smoker; sock; speciousness; stag; suit; varnish; visor; sham; shindy; show; shower; simulacrum; simulation; smoker; sock; speciousness; stag; suit; varnish; visor