pretended
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Whichever one looked up first, I could have pretended like the question was intended for them.
From Literature
Was she playing dumb earlier when she pretended like she’d never seen the thing before?
From Literature
A bird fluttered down to a low branch and chirped as though he were saying something to Red, and I had the feeling she understood the bird, even though she pretended not to notice.
From Literature
To take his journey, Mr. Mian pretended to be not a journalist but a scholar writing a history of the Volga.
The really crazy thing is that anyone ever pretended you could.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
