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 quickly get back in bed and pretend to sleep until Effie Trinket comes to alert me to the start of another "big, big, big day!"

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins