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Sentence count:196+6Posted:2016-12-03Updated:2020-07-24
Similar words: pretentiousendingspendingimpendingdependingpretentiousnessend insend inMeaning: [prɪ'tendɪŋ]  n. the act of giving a false appearance. 
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31, He's up to his old tricks again—he's been getting money from people by pretending to be blind.
32, Hewitt had gained entrance to the Hall by pretending to be a heating engineer.
33, She buried her head under the covers, pretending to be asleep.
34, Every magician has a trick that goes wrong, but you can turn this to your advantage by pretending it was deliberate and making the audience laugh.
35, They tried to smother up the murder by pretending that her death was accidental.
36, We used to prance around our bedroom pretending to be pop stars.
37, Although they are pretending hard to be young, grey hair and cellulite give them away.
38, He lived a lie for thirty years, pretending to be the faithful husband of two different women living in two different towns.
39, Albert was staring straight ahead, pretending not to listen.
40, She shook her head, pretending a half-bewilder-ment.
41, You aren't the cold woman you're pretending to be!
42, You gain power by pretending to be weak. Chuck Palahniuk 
43, I grinned in reply, pretending I liked the exercise.
44, She was pretending she would be all right someday.
45, I am so relieved to not be pretending anymore.
46, It is biased knowledge(sentencedict.com), pretending to be value-free.
47, She paused, pretending to check the lunch menu.
48, Stop pretending to be so heartless.
49, Or was he just pretending to be ignorant?
50, Princesse Mathilde chatted on, pretending nothing was amiss.
51, I tried to hide my anxiety from the rest of the family by pretending that everything was normal.
52, Mr Wakerley told the jury that Sams kidnapped Julie Dart by pretending to be a client.
53, Prosecutors say Moore had gotten in the car a few minutes earlier, pretending to be friendly with Hammond.
54, The introduction of council tax is going to hurt an awful lot of people and there is no point in pretending otherwise.
55, Wright was accused of pretending to be injured, and this was backed up by video evidence.
56, He's trying to enlist my sympathy by pretending he's in the grip of some third thing.
57, He burst into the room with a toy gun in his hand, pretending to be a gangster.
58, The pride of aiming at more knowledge, and pretending to more perfection, is the cause of Man's error and misery. Alexander Pope 
59, To go on with the utter silence or to break the silence, pretending nothing had happened.
60, The General Land Office bureaucrats sat in Washington pretending that such conditions did not exist.
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