pre tend

How to use pre tend in a sentence

• For my part, I can on-ly think by ma-chin-er-y, so I do not pre-tend to know as much as you do.

  The Emerald City of Oz | L. Frank Baum

• Soon they sat down to a table loaded with the very dishes of which they had pre-tend-ed to eat.

  Fifty Famous Stories Retold | James Baldwin

• He sat down, as if to a table, and pre-tend-ed to be carving a roast.

  Fifty Famous Stories Retold | James Baldwin