pretend

Example Sentences

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While Mrs. Archer made introductions—the boy was Oliver and the girl was Alyx—the kids inspected me while I inspected them, all of us trying to pretend we weren’t.

From Literature

I could just pretend that I’d never seen my name written on a Cocoon, and I could stay on track to become the best Glitcher the Academy had ever seen.

From Literature

“A gap year,” it was called, as if the Celtics were going to bolt off to a drafty Paris flat and pretend to read Sartre.

From The Wall Street Journal

He “found a calling. A life in storytelling. An identity in pretending to be other people,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times

Especially because she couldn't have played football - she had to pretend to be a boy, so she's thinking, 'all right, we'll just see how far this goes'.

From BBC