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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181) Oh yes, and the audience have to pretend they're at a football match.
182) Some children will pretend to read while others attend to the print.
183) The mercenary ones simply put up with them and pretend that they love them for what they can get out of them.
183) Sentencedict.com try its best to gather and create good sentences.
184) When I buy them from the chemist, I pretend they're for some one else.
185) They collect clothing with FBI insignia on it so they can pretend to be federal agents.
186) She did not pretend to understand such depth of feeling.
187) She may feel cautious about exploring certain themes in her pretend play such as coping with aggression.
188) He and his stupid little friends pretend to have dark secrets, contacts with the paramilitaries.
189) Instead, he would pretend the books already existed, and write fictions around them.
190) However, let us not pretend that there can not be a choice.
191) The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. Socrates
192) If the finest brains, with the best advice, don't know, why should I pretend any more?
193) Although Mr Roche owned the building in which Converse lived, it pleased him to pretend to be the manager.
194) And in like manner buyers will fence, and pretend to be less eager than they really are.
195) You pretend the female immortal, and I pretend Cinderella.
196) The cobweb pretend to catch dewdrops and catch flies.
197) Possum or pretend to sleep.
198) I pretend to give him the cold shoulder.
199) Why should he be falsely modest and pretend?
200) The tigers position arrangement fox is low, say it pretend to be king of beasts.
201) Keep all the life perennially open to Jesus Christ, don't pretend with Him.
202) They pretend to be guarding the public's morals, and they corrupt them with their beastly reports.
203) Action: Pretend to puff out candles and say p, p, p.
204) They had to pretend couple boarding house in the local farmers.
205) He like to act up and pretend that he is special.
206) Not even their diehard supporters can pretend that this was a great game.
207) I do not pretend to be omniscient, but am positive about this fact.
208) The emir does not pretend he is anything but a benevolent modernising autocrat.
209) You can pretend you're singing it to your fiancee Brooke!
210) You can live in the wreckage and pretend it's still the mansion you remember.
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