Synonym: act, bluff, fake, feign, make believe, sham. Similar words: pretending, pretence, pretentious, pretentiousness, pretext, excrete, foretell, concrete. Meaning: [prɪ'tend] n. the enactment of a pretense. v. 1. make believe with the intent to deceive 2. behave unnaturally or affectedly 3. put forward a claim and assert right or possession of 4. put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation 5. represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like 6. state insincerely. adj. imagined as in a play.
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31) Let's pretend A meets B in the park.
32) You cannot pretend there's no evil in the world.
33) He does not pretend to be a physicist. Sentencedict.com
34) Let's pretend it never happened.
35) The book doesn't pretend to be for beginners.
36) To pretend ignorance of the situation would be irresponsible.
37) She can sunbathe and pretend she's in Spain.
38) I don't like him, and it would be dishonest of me to pretend otherwise.
39) After the adverts, the presenter tried to pretend that everything was back to normal.
40) We do not pretend that the past six years have been without problems for us.
41) It would be foolish to pretend that the accident never happened.
42) She'll pretend that she hasn't seen us - you watch.
43) The book doesn't pretend to be a great work of literature.
44) Of course I was angry - I can't pretend otherwise.
45) He even tried to pretend he was a film star's son - can you credit it?
46) When I shout "Pow!" that means I've shot you and you've got to pretend to be dead.
47) The children pretend to be different animals dancing to the music.
48) You don't have to pretend anymore - you're among friends now.
49) I can't marry her and to pretend otherwise would be wrong.
50) They didn't have any real money so they had to pretend.
51) There are not many persons who pretend to exact knowledge of the subject.
52) She overlooked his rudeness and tried to pretend nothing had happened.
53) You know what this is about. Why pretend otherwise ?
54) Let's pretend we're on the spaceship orbiting round the earth!
55) Let's pretend we're astronauts.
56) It's hypocrisy for them to pretend that they were shocked at the news.
57) Don't be surprised if I pretend not to recognise you.
58) I don't pretend I know much about the subject(sentencedict.com), but ...
59) Within this lecture I cannot pretend to deal adequately with dreams.
60) I don't pretend to know as much as he does about it.
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