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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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91, Look, I know you're not really serious about visiting, so quit pretending.
92, They will have to choose between pretending to be friends of the farmer and lackeys of the environmentalist.
93, Perhaps he was trying to trick her into talking by pretending to be sympathetic?
94, I don't think he's asleep - I think he's just pretending.
95, And will you please stop pretending you care about me?
96, There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk. Drew Barrymore 
97, She was hanging back with him, pretending to be interested in some insect on a berry plant.
98, The coal strike alone will not cause the economic disaster that the Soviet government is pretending it will.
99, I filled in the rest of that day by pretending to be busy with the audit.
100, What is sour comes from pretending to be what we are not.
101, Lachian rows the boat to the middle of the loch and then he jumps in the water and starts pretending to drown.
102, That impersonality is the essence of war and the Thiepval Memorial attempts to disguise that fact by pretending to commemorate persons.
103, Pretending to be on a stroll, she hiked up to the car park.
104, The new editor did not know he was pretending and promising to be something that he was not-yet!
105, I hope you have not been leading a double life(Sentencedict.com ), pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. Oscar Wilde 
106, If Stillman was pretending, he was an actor like no other in the world.
107, What crass hypocrisy, pretending to worry about her career when she had been instrumental in its destruction!
108, She was still asleep, or pretending to be, when he got up.
109, Her suppressing it won't touch the problem, and neither will your merrily pretending the anger isn't there.
110, I eventually screwed up the courage to write to Richardson, pretending to be a drama student wanting advice.
111, Harvey was clowning around pretending to be a gunman, which was his way of being sarcastic to me.
112, I wandered on a yard or two, pretending to look elsewhere.
113, A child, of course, who begins by pretending to accept blame may end up by really accepting it.
114, We can't just go on pretending that everything is OK.
115, I hang around for a bit, pretending to look at some writing on the board.
116, The trouble with arriving early at a park is you don't look convincing pretending to take an interest in the roses.
117, As it happens, the most convincing way of pretending to clean a window is to actually do so.
118, It's no good pretending you've any aptitude for art when it's quite clear you've none at all.
119, I was tired of pretending that any stories in which I figured could ever end happily.
120, I was no longer responsible for the pretending, the elaborate play-acting.
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