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

• Just a pretext. (8)
• But on what pretext could he visit Pillin? (8)
• If you speak my Christian name, no: you forfeit any pretext. (10)
• Mrs. Pasmer instantly threw away all pretext of not having seen. (9)
• The pretext served also to make him the subject of many conversations. (10)
• On what perverse pretext, then, was it not some ancient town of Normandy? (9)
• He could still drive up, perhaps, once a week, on the pretext of seeing his man of business. (8)
• Violetta helped her to her bed-room under the pretext of a desire to hear the contents of the letter. (10)
• He said he would drop in during the afternoon, and I went indoors on the pretext of buying a newspaper. (9)
• He brought her a book which they had talked of at their last meeting, but he made no excuse or pretext of it. (9)
• She climbed unsuccessfully, it is true; soon despairing and using the effort as a pretext to fall back lower. (10)
• All the Maverings were fond of the theatre, and made any mood the occasion or the pretext of going to the play. (9)
• Patrick hummed a bar or two of an air, to hint of his being fanatico per la musica, as a pretext for their departure. (10)
• Philadelphia society rankled with Toryism that threw itself into the dust at any pretext for aristocratic government. (18)
• Nor, on the charitable pretext of employing two old fellows past ordinary work, did he omit to treble his night-watchman. (8)
• Madge conceived a pretext for going into the presence of her mistress, whose attitude was the same as when she first sat in the chair. (10)

Also see sentences for: cloak, disguise, excuse, loophole, mask, plea, ruse.

Definition of pretext:

• pretext, pr’tekst, or pr-tekst’, n. an assumed motive or reason put forward to conceal the real one: a pretence. (0)

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