GUISE in a Sentence

Learn GUISE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

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.

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 Meanings and Examples of GUISE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
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.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
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.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
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.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III
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.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XXVI
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.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XI
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.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
7  In this guise it becomes horrible.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—ORIGIN
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 ...
9  It was providence appearing in horrible guise, and his good angel springing from the earth in the form of Thenardier.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE TORN COAT-TAIL
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.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE LEECH
11  In such guise had Pearl adorned herself, when she heard her mother's voice, and came slowly back.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XVIII. A FLOOD OF SUNSHINE
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.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
13  The brigandish guise which the Canaller so proudly sports; his slouched and gaily-ribboned hat betoken his grand features.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
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.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK NINTH
15  This new guise our Lady made for us in pity, and granted us to be goddesses and spend our life under the waves.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TENTH
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.