guise

Example Sentences

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"The world's still full of those confused little boys creating chaos in the world in the guise of men and hopefully this is a little microcosm of that which helps us understand that," he adds.

From BBC

Slater told no one of his plan, and traveled in the guise of a farmer.

From Barron's

What emerges from “Tradecraft” is not just the portrait of a master storyteller, but of a man driven by a relentless search for narrative truth in all its guises.

From The Wall Street Journal

A decade after Bowie went back to the stars, however, one of his most resilient guises has proven to be Jareth, the Goblin King at the heart of the 1986 cult favorite “Labyrinth.”

From Salon

The centre-right Liberal Party and the rural-focused Nationals have jointly governed Australia under various guises for most of the past century.

From Barron's