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
He told her he was willin' to have her, and the fool gal let on like she didn't want him.
From The Power and the Glory by Keller, Arthur Ignatius
You've been shovin' that boy up the steps o' the pulpit ever since he let on like he could understand what you was sayin' to him, and maybe it's all right.
From The Quickening by Ashe, E. M.
