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.
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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121) They are not fooled by women who pretend to love sports.
122) She didn't need to pretend it was all so mysterious.
123) Now 25, Jane does not pretend to have reached the point where she is back enjoying her golf.
123) Sentencedict.com try its best to gather and create good sentences.
124) Children will be asked to watch and then describe such simple pretend episodes.
125) If not, she will pretend to look straight through him and pick at a plant leaf hoping he will go away.
126) We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear. Charles Caleb Colton 
127) I know this will sound glib, but don't pretend you aren't feeling what you feel.
128) Though she'd never been much of a nurse and it was hypocritical to pretend otherwise.
129) He had thought he was independent, but that was a lie: It was all pretend freedom.
130) No one would pretend to be Jamie again, no one would get hurt.
131) Finally, in order to avoid being rounded up, they pretend to be locked in a passionate embrace in a doorway.
132) Though he found it convenient to pretend otherwise, the man was no hick care-taker.
133) But he had grown to understand that none of them could even pretend to these things.
134) They liked to pretend it was hard work and persistence.
135) She longed to blot it out, pretend the last few months had never happened.
136) But it may be difficult for some people to pretend when they are overwhelmed with anger.
137) Certainly, I do not pretend any scholarly disinterest with this book.
138) He tried to pretend that the whole episode hadn't happened.
139) It is reactionary and regressive to pretend that television does not exist.
140) You can not pretend that is not actively engaged in assaulting her integrity.
141) It would be insulting to some one of Walker's stature to pretend otherwise.
142) The best are the one-man bands who excel at all the things the large corporate consultancies pretend to.
143) I head east from Anamosa, feeling too shitty to even pretend otherwise.
144) It is easy to pretend that the values and standard of behaviour about which I am speaking are genteel or middle class.
145) The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business. Clarence Darrow
146) But the steady emotional erosion, the sleeplessness, the manic anxiety I can not pretend about or minimize.
147) She was afraid Nick might treat her with coldness and pretend he had forgotten who she was.
148) The suit removed him from what they were all trying to pretend was a normal breakfast.
149) Revolutions only succeed in Britain if they pretend to be fondly restoring the past, not accelerating change.
150) She even let me pretend it was lettuce-flavoured so that Radish could wade through this wonderland and get her paws all sticky.
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