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How to use disguise in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Disguise means material (such as clothing, makeup, a wig) used to alter one’s visual appearance in order to hide one's identity or assume another. Example: “A cape and moustache completed his disguise.”

Examples of disguise by meaning

nounMaterial (such as clothing, makeup, a wig) used to alter one’s visual appearance in order to hide one's identity or...

  • A cape and moustache completed his disguise.

nounThe act or state of disguising, notably as a ploy.

  • Any disguise may expose soldiers to be deemed enemy spies.

verbTo change the appearance of (a person or thing) so as to hide, or to assume an identity.

  • Spies often disguise themselves.
  • Bunyan was forced to disguise himself as a wagoner.1911, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Bunyan, John”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
  • The official Central News agency said a Nationalist patrol boat Dec. 28 captured six Communist spies disguised as fishermen as they approached within 1,000 yards of the Paichuan in a motorized fishing craft.1955 December 31, “Chiang Says Time Near For Mainland Uprising”, in The Christian Science Monitor, Atlantic edition, volume 48, number 31...

verbTo avoid giving away or revealing (something secret); to hide by a false appearance.

  • He disguised his true intentions.

More sentences with disguise

  • All that talk is just a smokescreen to disguise the fact that he has nothing to say.From the entry smokescreen
  • He disguised himself as a businessman to blend in with the others wearing suits.From the entry blend in
  • The celebrity went unnoticed by her fans because she was in disguise.From the entry in disguise
  • The homeless man was actually a police officer in disguise working to catch drivers texting.From the entry in disguise
  • The next day he reassumed his disguise.From the entry reassume
  • That disguise is a dead giveaway! Choose something less obvious.From the entry dead giveaway
  • Anyone and his mother could see through that disguise.From the entry and his mother
  • But as Cook himself discovered, this decrepitness disguised the positives of Underground travel.2021 December 29, Conrad Landin, “Glasgow Subway: a city institution”, in RAIL, number 947, page 45. From the entry decrepitness
  • The boy guessed that the coat of yellow paint was to disguise her.2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN. From the entry one-off
  • They were huge, but well-tailored and disguised properly within the folds of the pants.2015, David Nabhan, The Pilots of Borealis, London: Gollancz, published 2020, →ISBN. From the entry breech
  • His disguise was a fluff of whipped cream and the fool was served with sponge fingers.2014, Lindsey Bareham, Just One Pot. From the entry fool
  • A stun gun disguised as a mobile phone has been seized from a 14-year-old boy in Manchester.2014 March 8, “Manchester police seize stun gun disguised as iPhone”, in BBC News. From the entry stun gun
  • Aung San escaped by disguising himself as a Chinese crewman on a Norwegian boat.2013, Myanmar (Burma) (Insight Guides), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 41. From the entry Amoy
  • Language was often tortured to disguise the racial nature of hazardous experimentation.2008, Harriet A. Washington, “Profitable Wonders”, in Medical Apartheid, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, page 59. From the entry tortured
  • The palace was built to disguise a three-story air-raid shelter located beneath it.2008, Frank E. Wismer, War in the Garden of Eden: A Military Chaplain's Memoir from Baghdad, →ISBN, page 139. From the entry air-raid
  • Then she settled in the back seat, barely disguising her anger.2008, Taghi Modarressi, translated by Nasrin Rahimieh, The Virgin of Solitude: A Novel, Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, →ISBN…. From the entry seatcover
  • She said they had to hide from the bad people because they might be devil-devils in disguise.2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 282. From the entry devil devil
  • Such men often disguised their philanthropies in requests for assistance with monumental hog killings and syrup makings.2005, Thad Sitton, James H. Conrad, “Making Do, Getting By”, in Freedom Colonies: Independent Black Texans in the Time of Jim Crow (Jack…. From the entry philanthropy
  • I've rarely worn armor in my life, and then only for disguise.2003, Alan Gordon, The Widow of Jerusalem: A Medieval Mystery, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 41. From the entry espaliere
  • The stress on cyberanarchy disguises the non-democratic features of my dream.2002, Toshiyuki Konō, Christoph Paulus, Harry Rajak, Selected legal issues of e-commerce, page 12. From the entry cyberanarchy
  • At the other extreme, couples who are married with children have heavily disguised tiffs.2000 September 30, Guy Browning, “How to... have a tiff”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 03 Jun 2021. From the entry apologise
  • He wears a wrinkled polo shirt that does little to disguise his bulging Buddha belly.2000, Steve Martini, The Attorney, Jove Books, published 2001, →ISBN. From the entry Buddha belly
  • The very funeral pageantry disguised behind-the-scenes struggles for control over Sidney's image.1998, Lisa M. Klein, The Exemplary Sidney and the Elizabethan Sonneteer, page 15. From the entry funeral
  • Other late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century novelists utilized thinly disguised Edison-surrogates in a range of future war books.1997, Brooks Landon, Science Fiction After 1900: From the Steam Man to the Stars, New York, N.Y.: Twayne Publishers, →ISBN, page 44. From the entry future war
  • It is easy for the landsider to forget that seafarers came in many disguises.1993, Tim Madge, Long Voyage Home: True Stories From Britain's Twilight Maritime Years, London […]: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 146. From the entry landsider
  • Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it.1992, Gore Vidal, The Decline and Fall of the American Empire. From the entry decadent
  • The strain of the long voyage shows in our faces, but there is no disguising our joy.1989 May, Jeff MacInnis, “Braving the Northwest Passage”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 600. From the entry show
  • The attempts to disguise nonarguments to make them look like arguments fall into several patterns.1989, Robert Baum, Logic. From the entry nonargument
  • He plays Brown, a federal agent who disguises himself as a bumbling Sherlock Holmesque detective.1988 April 8, Lisa McKinnon, “In search of theater”, in Lompoc Record, volume 114, number 307, page T1. From the entry Sherlock Holmesque
  • Disguised under such names as dogfish, sharkflesh for centuries been sold in fish markets.1987, John D.Stevens, editor, Sharks, New York, N.Y: Facts on File, page 195. From the entry sharkflesh
  • The Oreo is really an antidepressant drug disguised as a cookie.1984 December, Michael Norman, “The Junk Food Hall of Fame”, in Cincinnati Magazine, page 67. From the entry oreo
  • The Devil, now disguised as a half-wit peasant to Lars-Goren’s left, stood grinning, his blear eyes glittering.1981, John Gardner, Freddy's Book, Abacus, published 1982, page 74. From the entry blear
  • His undercover work, by necessity, dictated that he assume various roles and disguises.1981 April, Matt Braun, chapter 4, in Tombstone (Luke Starbuck; 3), New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 41. From the entry smoothtalker
  • Disguising himself, he ventured into the countryside, where he spied a muni meditating beneath a plane tree.1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XVII, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 158. From the entry muni

Meaning of disguise

  1. noun Material (such as clothing, makeup, a wig) used to alter one’s visual appearance in order to hide one's identity or assume another.
  2. noun The appearance of something on the outside which masks what’s beneath.
  3. noun The act or state of disguising, notably as a ploy.

Full definition of disguise

Questions about disguise in a sentence

How do you use disguise in a sentence?
Disguise is used as a noun and verb. For example: “A cape and moustache completed his disguise.”
What is a short sentence with disguise?
“Spies often disguise themselves.”
What does disguise mean?
Disguise means material (such as clothing, makeup, a wig) used to alter one’s visual appearance in order to hide one's identity or assume another.

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