hollow pretense

How to use hollow pretense in a sentence

• The lion-like roars without seemed suddenly all hollow pretense.

  The Beauty | Mrs. Wilson Woodrow

• He needed money—money to fight with, money to live on, money to keep up his hollow pretense of respectability.

  Mortmain | Arthur Cheny Train

• We must show them the false foundation and the hollow pretense upon which such schemes are founded.

  The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4) | W. Grant Hague