GUISE in a Sentence
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20 example sentences for GUISE, such as:
1. In this guise it becomes horrible.
2. It presents itself in the guise of a plain, and it yawns like a wave.
3. The men who arrived in the guise of drug dealers were actually undercover police officers.
4. In such guise had Pearl adorned herself, when she heard her mother's voice, and came slowly back.
5. This new guise our Lady made for us in pity, and granted us to be goddesses and spend our life under the waves.
2. It presents itself in the guise of a plain, and it yawns like a wave.
3. The men who arrived in the guise of drug dealers were actually undercover police officers.
4. In such guise had Pearl adorned herself, when she heard her mother's voice, and came slowly back.
5. This new guise our Lady made for us in pity, and granted us to be goddesses and spend our life under the waves.
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Meanings and Examples of GUISE
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guise
n. outward appearance or aspect; mode of dress; false appearance
Classic Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1 At the present moment the master of the house was engaged in giving the cook orders for what, under the guise of an early breakfast, promised to constitute a veritable dinner.
2 Yet even this contretemps did not upset him; he merely called the offending bottle a fool, and then debated whom first he should visit in his attractive guise.
3 Mademoiselle Bourienne and the little princess had to own to themselves that Princess Mary in this guise looked very plain, worse than usual, but it was too late.
4 Under guise of a present for the pilgrims, Princess Mary prepared a pilgrim's complete costume for herself: a coarse smock, bast shoes, a rough coat, and a black kerchief.
5 Pierre received him unwillingly at first, but got used to him after a while, sometimes even accompanied him on his carousals, and gave him money under the guise of loans.
6 In the frightful meditation into which its presence casts the soul the scaffold appears in terrible guise, and as though taking part in what is going on.
7 In this guise it becomes horrible.
8 It presents itself in the guise of a plain, and it yawns like a wave.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE ...
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE ...
9 It was providence appearing in horrible guise, and his good angel springing from the earth in the form of Thenardier.
10 Arthur Dimmesdale, like many other personages of special sanctity, in all ages of the Christian world, was haunted either by Satan himself or Satan's emissary, in the guise of old Roger Chillingworth.
11 In such guise had Pearl adorned herself, when she heard her mother's voice, and came slowly back.
12 In the uneasy snatches of her natural dreams he came to her sometimes in the old guise of fellowship and tenderness; and she would rise from the sweet delusion mocked and emptied of her courage.
13 The brigandish guise which the Canaller so proudly sports; his slouched and gaily-ribboned hat betoken his grand features.
14 Elsewhere in dreadful guise Mezentius brandishes his Etruscan pine and hurls smoking brands; but Messapus, tamer of horses, seed of Neptune, tears away the palisading and calls for ladders to the ramparts.
15 This new guise our Lady made for us in pity, and granted us to be goddesses and spend our life under the waves.
Example Sentence:
1 The men who arrived in the guise of drug dealers were actually undercover police officers.
2 They operated a drug-smuggling business under the guise of an employment agency.
3 The Mona Lisa, in its kind of mysterious guise, is really a creation of 19th-century French critics who chose to see it in those terms.