Masquerade

//ˌmæskəˈɹeɪd//

"Masquerade" in a Sentence (15 examples)

What is the reason for this masquerade?

Tom held a masquerade ball in the grand ballroom.

The princess held a masquerade ball in the grand ballroom.

Tom and Mary met at a masquerade ball.

The king held a masquerade ball in the grand ballroom.

I've been invited to a masquerade party.

I advise you to end the masquerade.

Illogical positions often masquerade as logical ones. For example, the idea that logic is an inherent trait exclusive to men and not something that people of any gender have to learn to practice.

I was invited to the masquerade party at their home.

What guards the purity of melting Maids, / In courtly Balls and midnight Maſquerades, / Safe from the treach'rous friend, and daring ſpark, / The glance by day, the whiſper in the dark; / [...] / 'Tis but their Sylph, the wiſe Celeſtials know, / Tho' Honour is the word with Men below.

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Verres in the youth of Cicero, Catiline and Clodius in his middle age, Mark Antony in his old age, have all been left to operate on the modern reader's feelings precisely through that masquerade of misrepresentation which invariably accompanied the political eloquence of Rome.

I’m going to masquerade as an old-fashioned pilot. What are you going to dress up as?

There was a Freak took an Aſs in the Head, to Scoure abroad on the Ramble; and away he goes into the Woods, Maſquerading up and down in a Lyon's Skin.

He masqueraded as my friend until the truth finally came out.

Ethan Hunt, the human missile of American intelligence that Tom Cruise has been popping back in to play for more than 20 years now, is masquerading as a mysterious terrorist, the perfectly named John Lark, to buy back some plutonium he’s lost to a cabal of doomsday extremists.

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