Examples of masquerade in a Sentence

Noun She could not keep up the masquerade any longer. although she was deeply bored, she maintained a masquerade of polite interest as her guest droned on Verb He was masquerading under a false name.

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun Anti-fatness is often a more socially acceptable masquerade for anti-Blackness. — Ashley Andreou, Scientific American, 26 May 2022 One through line is the carnival tradition, which recurs, chameleon-like, in everything from a eighteenth-century landscape of Dutch Suriname to a crowded village masquerade painted by the mid-century Haïtian artist Sénèque Obin. — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 4 May 2022 Wally Westmore’s makeups and Nellie Manley’s hair supervision are all important in making the spectator accept the masquerade and, at the proper moments, in keeping the audience guessing. — Jack Moffitt, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2022 The masquerade will benefit the Center’s youth programs, including the Sunburst Youth Housing Project. — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Apr. 2022 His masquerade also reveals unexpected lines of kinship. — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022 Wynne, who has done legitimate business in the Eastern Bloc, trading in scientific machinery, is persuaded to fly to Moscow, to establish an overt professional link with Penkovsky and, under that masquerade, to bring back sensitive information. — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2021 Sophie Beckett, the daughter of an earl who is disdainfully treated as a servant by her stepmother, sneaks out to Lady Bridgerton's famed masquerade ball. — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 Mar. 2022 And the part of that campaign that the intelligence community missed was Russia's use of social media masquerade accounts masquerading as Americans to sow divisions. — CBS News, 2 Feb. 2022 Recent Examples on the Web: Verb Today, many vendors claim zero-trust capabilities that, in reality, masquerade as a subliminal product ad and turn zero trust into product-centric babble. — Benny Lakunishok, Forbes, 25 July 2022 In fact, sometimes, cyclical challenges can masquerade or transform into long term ones. — Harry G. Broadman, Forbes, 1 July 2022 Branding covers over those questions, so arbitrary choice can masquerade as preference. — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 30 Apr. 2022 This chewy beauty is as light as a Pinot Noir, and could even masquerade as a Grenache. — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 22 May 2022 Gujarat state has a long history of immigration to the United States, a trend that has only intensified during the pandemic, creating brisk demand for smuggling enterprises that masquerade as travel agencies. — New York Times, 14 Mar. 2022 Barrel transfers in the dead of night from one vessel to another allowed Iran to masquerade under different flags, selling its oil to keen Asian buyers without catching the eye of Western monitors. — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 15 Apr. 2022 What is camp, however, is the production’s decision to put an Oscar winner in 200 pounds of prosthetics to masquerade as a midwestern murdering mom. — Michael Appler, Variety, 11 Mar. 2022 Prize will be a private, invitation-only distillers masquerade ball at Aviator Event Center and Pub on Saturday, Nov. 19, with music, food and drinks. — Marc Bona, cleveland, 7 Mar. 2022 See More

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