pretend
Example Sentences
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Related: ‘I feel like I’m living a lie’: My husband and I pretend we’re strapped for cash in front of friends.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026
"Let's not pretend someone expected it. I was outside the top 100 and now I'm in the final of a Grand Slam. It is hard to process," she said.
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026
“I don’t know what his plans are, and I’m not gonna pretend to know,” Garrett said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026
Mr. Schmidt exemplifies the propensity among a few tech titans to pretend they’d never urged anyone to panic about a coming climate apocalypse.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026
Maybe it doesn’t make sense, but I can’t help thinking if Mom got in trouble, she’d pretend to be somebody else.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
Vocabulary lists containing pretend
"Eleven"
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"Eleven," Vocabulary from the short story
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"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll, Chapters 1–3
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