Wondering how to use Artifice in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as ruse or maneuver.
Artifice meaning
- A crafty but underhanded deception.
- A trick played out as an ingenious, but artful, ruse.
- A strategic maneuver that uses some clever means to avoid detection or capture.
Using Artifice
- The main meaning on this page is: A crafty but underhanded deception. | A trick played out as an ingenious, but artful, ruse. | A strategic maneuver that uses some clever means to avoid detection or capture.
- Useful related words include: ruse, maneuver, manoeuvre, tactical maneuver.
- In the example corpus, artifice often appears in combinations such as: artifice and, of artifice, an artifice.
Context around Artifice
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 12 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Artifice
- In this selection, "artifice" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, overemphasized, managed, bracing, good and looks stand out and add context to how "artifice" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include artifice looks at and as an artifice. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "artifice" sits close to words such as abdur, abrasion and abscess, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with artifice
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
In a world of so much artifice, what counts as authentic experience? (12 words)
Camp celebrates artifice and artificiality, flamboyance and theatricality, but can quickly deflate if forced. (14 words)
Such artifice is a food-programme staple, but it does jar slightly in this case. (15 words)
In the era of the ultra-glossy $200 million blockbuster, a little bit of artifice can be welcome and even touching: It’s a reminder that every movie comes down to a whole bunch of human beings who’ve decided to play pretend for you. (45 words)
Even an issue that is less dull than prior installments is so poorly assembled that it’s impossible to ever accept the story it presents or be entertained by various elements of artifice that desperately seek to be entertaining. (39 words)
Although there are paw marks of a debutante whose skills still require some honing in this collection—especially in the craft itself—there is no doubt that the poetic quality compensates for the sometimes-overemphasized artifice. (36 words)
In a world of so much artifice, what counts as authentic experience? (12 words)
Example sentences (20)
In the era of the ultra-glossy $200 million blockbuster, a little bit of artifice can be welcome and even touching: It’s a reminder that every movie comes down to a whole bunch of human beings who’ve decided to play pretend for you.
Similarly, 1953’s (a pun on "feux d'artifice," the French term for fireworks) could have been silly and insubstantial in a lesser director’s hands.
The uneasy feeling that this aesthetic brings with it is only more compounded by the film's setting, which feels both vividly real and built as an artifice.
In a world of so much artifice, what counts as authentic experience?
In this way it makes visible one of the most interesting aspects of gardens: that they exist on the threshold between artifice and nature, conscious decision and wild happenstance.
Although there are paw marks of a debutante whose skills still require some honing in this collection—especially in the craft itself—there is no doubt that the poetic quality compensates for the sometimes-overemphasized artifice.
In many ways the Patriots have won so consistently for so many years by stripping away this artifice: good players are good players, the rest doesn’t matter.
Instead of joy, you got stiff service, the whiff of closely managed artifice and a very big bill.
The blue humans are the Neurok, masters of artifice and arcane knowledge at Lumengrid (not too different from the Esper shard of Alara).
The film blends fiction storytelling with documentary-style visuals for “a striking meditation on truth and artifice in the age of loneliness,” according to a statement.
As puppet creator Stephen Chiodo noted to MovieWeb, it’s the scene’s bracing artifice that’s actually the key to its humour.
Camp celebrates artifice and artificiality, flamboyance and theatricality, but can quickly deflate if forced.
Even an issue that is less dull than prior installments is so poorly assembled that it’s impossible to ever accept the story it presents or be entertained by various elements of artifice that desperately seek to be entertaining.
It jolted everybody into the present, and its message perfectly channeled the performative nature of theater and its stylized artifice.
Perhaps it’s not surprising that the cast members will go along with the artifice because staggering amounts of money are at stake.
Sets by Michael Yeargan, in this production owned by the San Francisco Opera, employ dramatic artifice (including landscape art on a huge, sliding canvas) in a minimalist context.
Artifice looks at ways to keep your holiday spending in your hometown and boost community in the process.
Every reality show traffics in a good deal of artifice, and “House Hunters” is no different.
From the raw material of memory he’s made something that nearly erases the difference between artifice and life, as well as the distance between past and present.
Such artifice is a food-programme staple, but it does jar slightly in this case.
Common combinations with artifice
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- artifice and 10×
- of artifice 4×
- an artifice 3×
- artifice or 3×
- between artifice 2×
- and artifice 2×
- artifice that 2×
- instability artifice 2×