let on like
Example Sentences
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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
Why, they just don’t let on, like she was a regular person.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
And what does she do but out into the barn and shoot the gun into the air, and come back and let on like the horse is gone.
From The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien
Put 'er back in the monument and don't let on like we think they're after this claim at all.
From Casey Ryan by B. M. Bower
