Example Sentences

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Brazilian police have disguised themselves using fancy dress to blend in as Carnival-goers to target phone thieves in Rio de Janeiro.

From BBC • Feb. 14, 2026

The problem is that Joe and Jerry have disguised themselves as women in order to escape the gangsters who are pursuing them in Chicago.

From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2020

Indeed, sociologists of science have shown how modern ideas of disinterested scientific knowledge have disguised the inextricable links between knowledge and human interests.

From The Guardian • Aug. 3, 2018

He believes his diagnosed autism could have disguised schizophrenia, but insisted: "Mental health professionals who saw him did not see anything that would have predicted his future behaviour. "I get very defensive with my name.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2017

“I don’t want to ask him! Why didn’t he steal a suit for me, too? Then I could have disguised myself as a man.”

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke