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
I let on like I hadn’t seen this because I knew what it was.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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
"You haven't been enjoying it any more than the rest of us—which is mighty little; but you've got insides enough to let on like it's considerable sport—which is a whole lot."
From The Settling of the Sage by Evarts, Hal G. (Hal George)
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
