Sentence for pretend | Use pretend in a sentence

How to use pretend in a sentence. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use pretend in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for pretend.

  • And to pretend! (8)
  • Pretend, do you mean? (10)
  • Why pretend? (8)
  • I do not pretend to it. (4)
  • I do not pretend to be a wit. (4)
  • She does not pretend to wit. (10)
  • He would pretend, very little. (9)
  • Could she pretend to ignore it? (10)
  • Why should a man pretend to more? (10)
  • How could people pretend to like it? (10)
  • How could people pretend to like it? (22)
  • Do you then pretend to be ignorant of it? (4)
  • I did not even pretend not to understand. (9)
  • She is not unlikely to pretend to trifle. (10)
  • Forgive me if I seemed to pretend to casuistry. (10)
  • We may then pretend to a philosophical resolve. (10)
  • This is really to pretend that he is superhuman. (10)
  • Do you pretend that it is her wish not to see me? (10)
  • Do you pretend that it is her wish not to see me? (22)
  • You can teach her to pretend not to, if you like. (10)
  • How, then, could she pretend to any right to live? (10)
  • Speak, or keep silent; try to console; try to pretend? (8)
  • Let him retreat himself, if he pretend to be an artist. (8)
  • He might pretend he was a newspaper man wanting a story. (8)
  • Should she pretend to feel faint and slip out into the hotel? (8)
  • Whether she adores Wilfrid or not I do not pretend to guess. (10)
  • Things have now gone so far that I cannot pretend to be blind. (10)
  • We should, if we pretend to be better, step between them and that. (10)
  • She had not the effrontery to pretend not to see, and she yielded it. (10)
  • And there you sit, you Liberals, and pretend to encourage these people! (8)
  • Is it not honest to pretend to have only one cure for mortal maladies? (10)
  • It was one thing to put up with embraces, quite another to pretend that. (8)
  • He asked himself what motive he had, and tried to pretend that he had none. (9)
  • I do not pretend that the spell I was under was wholly of a moral or social texture. (9)
  • Then he laughed his goat-like laugh, and one had to pretend to share his amusement. (12)
  • Then, as they could not pretend to look at the pictures any longer, they went away, too. (9)
  • If she seemed bad and false to him, there was no longer reason to pretend to be otherwise. (8)
  • But I am, not sorry for this, for perhaps they are not quite so bad as some people pretend. (9)
  • Fulkerson himself did not pretend to say what the old man had been up to since he went West. (9)
  • He was very cordial in his inquiries; and I had to pretend, to gratify him, that you were very well. (9)
  • Certainly it is the best philosophy youth can pretend to practise; and Lord Ormont kept him from it! (10)
  • She stopped about a dozen yards away, to pat Balthasar and pretend that this was all she had in her mind. (8)
  • Lucy had to pretend to rise to put out the light before Berry would give up her amorous chaste soliloquy. (10)
  • She would have had me, if I had thought proper to think as she thinks, or play hypocrite, and pretend to. (10)
  • She would have had me, if I had thought proper to think as she thinks, or play hypocrite, and pretend to. (22)
  • They do not pretend; they do not conceal; they flatter no conventions and no prejudices; they are sincere. (16)
  • Why, since he had accepted his fate, should he pretend to judge the conduct of people his superiors in rank? (10)
  • I can be furnished a small boat, and in case of capture I can pretend to have escaped from an English vessel. (18)
  • I shall not pretend to offer you advice, for I have the habit of thinking your judgement can stand by itself. (10)
  • I pretend in the teeth of all concerned to establish her happiness and yours, and nothing human shall stop me. (10)
  • Who could pretend to despise the honour of admission to the ranks of the proudest peerage the world has known! (10)
  • I am not uneducated, but he introduces me to words that seem monsters; I must pretend to know them intimately.) (10)
  • Her humour was created to swim on waters where a prescribed and cultivated prudery should pretend to be drowning. (10)
  • But he would not let me feel very guilty, and I will not pretend that I had any personal regret for my good fortune. (9)
  • I did not pretend an original right to them, coming so late as I did to the place, and I think my deference pleased him. (9)
  • Night and day he was haunted by the thought: How can I, living in defiance of authority, pretend to authority over my fellows? (8)
  • Anne had always felt that she would pretend what was proper on her arrival, but the complaisance of the others was unlooked for. (4)
  • I will not pretend that I saw it in its entirety, and I have no hope of presenting anything like a kinetoscopic impression of it. (9)
  • Their leaders now pretend to work upon the Great Scale; they demand everything on the spot upon their own interpretation of equity. (10)
  • She did not pretend that she was surprised; she owned that she had sometimes expected it; she blamed herself for not expecting it then. (9)
  • Clemens was victorious on the platform from the beginning, and it would be folly to pretend that he did not exult in his triumphs there. (9)
  • It was part of his joke to pretend a violence in that gentlest creature which the more amusingly realized the situation to their friends. (9)
  • Clementina could not pretend that Gregory had asked, but she could not blame him for a forgetfulness of Mrs. Lander which she had shared with him. (9)
  • Did she mean, amongst those splendid things, that they might understand each other; or were they fated to pretend to only, in the old time-honoured way? (8)

Also see sentences for: acknowledge, affect, avow, feign, imitate, profess, sham.

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