pretend to sleep
Example Sentences
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He would sometimes lie down and pretend to sleep in the fairway, waiting for slower players to hit.
From Golf Digest ● Apr. 1, 2020
And, on the other hand, a bot can pretend to sleep, and a lot of bots, in fact, have a diurnal pattern.
From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2018
Yes, Krulwich insists; he’d pretend to sleep when his parents peeked in on him — a scene he punctuates with a theatrical snore.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2011
But most of the time we just pretend to sleep when we rest for a while.
From Newsweek
I shall lie down and pretend to sleep, lest Jonathan have added anxiety about me when he returns.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
