Explore Disguise through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like camouflage or hide. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Disguise meaning
- Material (such as clothing, makeup, a wig) used to alter one’s visual appearance in order to hide one's identity or assume another.
- The appearance of something on the outside which masks what’s beneath.
- The act or state of disguising, notably as a ploy.
Synonyms of Disguise
Using Disguise
- The main meaning on this page is: Material (such as clothing, makeup, a wig) used to alter one’s visual appearance in order to hide one's identity or assume another. | The appearance of something on the outside which masks what’s beneath. | The act or state of disguising, notably as a ploy.
- Useful related words include: camouflage, hide, hiding, concealing.
- Possible Dutch translations are: vermommen, zich vermommen, verhullen.
- In the example corpus, disguise often appears in combinations such as: in disguise, to disguise, disguise the.
Context around Disguise
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 13 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Disguise
- In this selection, "disguise" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, simple, gameplay, themselves, now and hack stand out and add context to how "disguise" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include albeit in disguise and bedsheet to disguise figures and. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "disguise" sits close to words such as antenna, avail and baseline, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with disguise
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Grocery delivery stores are blessing in disguise. (7 words)
Bully bosses never went away, they just wear a disguise now. (11 words)
Expansive gameplay – Disguise, hack, and blast your way through the galaxy. (11 words)
However, the 31-year-old has viewed his “John Terry role” as a “blessing in disguise” with the spell with eventual-champions Chennai Super Kings time well spent after he worked on his batting and managed his workload. (38 words)
HM Revenue and Customs issued a press release earlier this month saying the programmes promoted by AML Tax (UK) Ltd all 'seek to disguise remuneration' – wrongly allowing company directors to avoid paying tax on their income. (36 words)
Ephraim Borowski from the Scottish Council of Jewish Communities told The Herald on Sunday: "The antisemitic nature of Miller's views, which he has tried to disguise as anti-Zionism, is now expressed quite openly. (35 words)
Imagine the audacity of using a dirty bedsheet to disguise figures, and plucking numbers from the air while voiding legitimate votes! (21 words)
Example sentences (20)
After Commander Riker is injured while on an undercover mission, the people of the planet Malcor III see through his disguise and notice that his biology is different from theirs.
Although Lois Lane and many others at the Daily Planet saw Clark Kent on a regular basis, they failed to see past his very simple disguise.
As for Mitchell, he could not disguise his awe of Geelong in their blitzkrieg of a second half.
Being on the tough end of unrequited love has been one of the biggest blessings in disguise I’ve encountered in my life so far.
Bully bosses never went away, they just wear a disguise now.
But the security forces discovered the disguise and separated him from his mother, he said from the Houry Center in 2019.
But with the gangsters looking for them, they disguise themselves as women and join an all-female big band crossing the country.
Clayface is a master of disguise whose shapeshifting skills have even fooled Batman.
Don’t make an Ant-Man threequel that’s really a low-rent Fantastic Four movie in disguise and don’t make a Thor fourquel that shows contempt for the characters.
Ephraim Borowski from the Scottish Council of Jewish Communities told The Herald on Sunday: "The antisemitic nature of Miller's views, which he has tried to disguise as anti-Zionism, is now expressed quite openly.
Expansive gameplay – Disguise, hack, and blast your way through the galaxy.
Grocery delivery stores are blessing in disguise.
Having said that Kirsten feels Williamson’s injury came as a blessing in disguise for a young player like Sai Sudharsan, who has scored 176 runs from five games.
HM Revenue and Customs issued a press release earlier this month saying the programmes promoted by AML Tax (UK) Ltd all 'seek to disguise remuneration' – wrongly allowing company directors to avoid paying tax on their income.
However, Dugarry is not too concerned, as he believes the absence may be a blessing in disguise for PSG as they take on Bayern Munich in the Champions League this week.
However, he has physically shown up for the Angels in times of distress, albeit in disguise.
However, the 31-year-old has viewed his “John Terry role” as a “blessing in disguise” with the spell with eventual-champions Chennai Super Kings time well spent after he worked on his batting and managed his workload.
Imagine the audacity of using a dirty bedsheet to disguise figures, and plucking numbers from the air while voiding legitimate votes!
In Mellon's case, she tried to disguise some of the payments as being for antique furniture.
Instead, it was a type of camouflage burlap used by hunters to disguise themselves among foliage.
Common combinations with disguise
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- in disguise 68×
- to disguise 46×
- disguise the 13×
- disguise to 12×
- the disguise 11×
- disguise as 10×
- disguise for 10×
- disguise their 9×
- disguise of 8×
- disguise and 7×