MASK in a Sentence

Learn MASK 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.

111 example sentences for MASK, such as:

1. We're going to a masked ball.
2. He wants to mask his disappointment.
3. Pride is the mask of one's own faults.
4. They contrived a mask against poison gas.
5. The gunman, whose mask had slipped, fled.

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 Meanings and Examples of MASK
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mask
 v.  try to conceal something; disguise; hide under a false appearance
Classic Sentence: (99 in 7 pages)
1  Madame Victurnien was fifty-six, and re-enforced the mask of ugliness with the mask of age.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON M...
2  The tragic mask of shadow seemed to bend vaguely over the child.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE
3  The past has a visage, superstition, and a mask, hypocrisy.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XI—END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS
4  Let us denounce the visage and let us tear off the mask.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XI—END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS
5  A charter is a mask; the lie lurks beneath it.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN
6  If a candle was brought, he put on a mask.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND MONTPARNASS...
7  Like the first, his arms were bare, and he had a mask of ink or lampblack.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XIX—OCCUPYING ONE'S SELF WITH OBSCURE DEPTHS
8  The mask with the ventriloquist's voice deposited his huge key on the floor, raised both arms in the air, and opened and clenched his fists, three times rapidly without uttering a word.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XX—THE TRAP
9  One would have pronounced her a mask of Decrepitude carved out by a light from the night.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XXII—THE LITTLE ONE WHO WAS CRYING IN VOLUME TWO
10  They demanded light with the mask of night.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
11  Nothing is stranger than these words which both mask and reveal.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—ROOTS
12  One seemed a maw; the other a mask.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND...
13  The mask of Basil is to be found there, but one beholds its cardboard and its strings and the inside as well as the outside, and it is accentuated by honest mud.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER
14  For a condemned man, a mask is not a mask, it is a shelter.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN
15  The king made his way through the crowd without a mask, and the ribbons of his doublet scarcely tied.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 22 THE BALLET OF LA MERLAISON
Example Sentence:
1  The gunman, whose mask had slipped, fled.
2  Lawyers, under the cloak of client confidentiality, can mask the beneficial owners of accounts.
3  They contrived a mask against poison gas.
4  Her sociable manner is really a mask for a very shy nature.
5  Pride is the mask of one's own faults.
6  He wants to mask his disappointment.
7  We're going to a masked ball.
8  He surprised a masked intruder in the kitchen.
9  Mr. Lebedev is referring to a raid last year on his father's bank, National Reserve Bank in Moscow, by masked Russian police.
10  The workers wear masks to avoid inhaling the dust.
11  Many of the dancers at the fancy dress ball wore colourful masks.
12  The bank robbers wore masks throughout the raid.