Sentence for pretending | Use pretending in a sentence

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

• Surely a scene pretending to sublimity? (10)
• What would be the use of his pretending? (9)
• What was the good of pretending that he did? (8)
• It was no good pretending that she was happy. (8)
• Diana replied, without pretending to misunderstand. (10)
• That is why I cannot go on pretending to be a pattern. (8)
• Why should he have gone on pretending that there was no hurry? (9)
• We go too far in pretending to despise every insult pitched at us. (10)
• She cannot forgive me for not pretending to enter into her enthusiasm. (10)
• The hypocritical nonsense of pretending to like opera-music disgusted him. (10)
• The hypocritical nonsense of pretending to like opera-music disgusted him. (22)
• Now, you would never think of pretending to a moral quality you do not possess. (10)
• He entertained a pronounced dissension with bachelors pretending to independence. (10)
• The powers who wait on gentlemen had only helped the pretending youth to try him. (10)
• Pretending to be the defender of liberty, it too often is the assailant of private right. (16)
• We conciliated him by calling him captain, and pretending to swear an oath of allegiance. (10)
• Eight Indians, pretending to barter furs, went on board two English ships and tried to surprise them. (19)
• The white young man bent his dull wink on Thyme, who, wrinkling her nose, was pretending to be far away. (8)
• But does a man pretending to love a woman cut at one blow, for such a cause, the ties uniting her to him? (10)
• You really are the best fellow of your set that I have come across, and the only one pretending to brains. (10)
• I recognize the truth of this without pretending to have been changed in anything but my point of view of it. (9)
• They had regarded her liking them as a matter of course; his mother had ignored her even in pretending to decry Dan to her. (9)

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