pretend

Example Sentences

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“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

They are “not the harmless environmentalists they pretend to be,” Starmer said.

From The Wall Street Journal

His trial judge later said he had added to the families' grief by pretending to help and offering words of sympathy to Holly's father.

From BBC