let on like

Example Sentences

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Why, they just don’t let on, like she was a regular person.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Seemed nobody had told Pastor Howard either, as he didn’t let on like he thought it was funny.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

I let on like I hadn’t seen this because I knew what it was.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

Then you c'n let on like you're lookin' fer me because I'd robbed a hen-roost er something, an' that'll get 'em off their guard.

From The Daughter of Anderson Crow by McCutcheon, George Barr

I'm just to be, not to make believe or let on like I was, but to be a real lady inside.

From The Shepherd of the Hills by Wright, Harold Bell