masquerade
Example Sentences
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And though the high gloss may be an act given Gaston’s actual vocation, Marshall plays the part as if the crook himself believes the masquerade.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
As historian David Garrow documents, King believed that violence collapsed the moral clarity the movement depended on, allowing repression to masquerade as order.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
The only question left is how long she can keep up the masquerade before even her audience sees through it.
From Salon • Dec. 24, 2025
To reduce those emissions, Carnicycle has started a recycling programme, collecting unused costumes that would have been dumped or burned by masquerade bands, which use new costume designs every year.
From BBC • Mar. 3, 2025
Night masquerade dawned with an un- usual fog, and when Ash went out into the garden to pump water for her stepsis- ters’ baths, the King’s Forest was invisible behind the cool white mist.
From "Ash" by Malinda Lo
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