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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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121, But there is no use pretending the Saturn-Pluto effect will be a piece of cake.
122, Rule two, stop pretending you got engaged to my kid brother for anything but his money.
123, But costume jewellery had the distinct advantage of not pretending to be anything other than what it was.
124, Bush spent the campaign pretending that this was an election about the budget surplus, or social security or the military.
125, Mrs Parvis was standing out on the front doorstep, pretending to watch out for something in the sky.
126, For him she was a guilty woman pretending to be an innocent one.
127, Some plantation families tried desperately to maintain their traditional lifestyle by pretending they still had slaves.
128, And anyway, why have I been sitting here pretending I like camomile tea?
129, Like the other servants who had witnessed the incident, I just looked away, pretending nothing had happened.
130, Sometimes he stopped at the fireplace, and sometimes at the door, pretending to stare with great interest into shop windows.
131, The first two fingers closed together as if he was a little kid pretending he had a gun.
132, Doyle was frowning down at yesterday's paper, pretending to do the crossword.
133, Were they all pretending to be ignorant in order to trap him into making some punishable blunder.
134, We thought that he was really hurt, but he was just pretending.
135, They are always pretending to be grown-ups playing soldiers, playing shop. Sentencedict.com
136, It's plump actors pretending to be working class, when their fathers are neuro-surgeons.
137, Jill is on my lap, pretending to be a baby.
138, And some criminals pretending to act on my orders have been killing drivers and then stealing their cars.
139, By holding back, pretending concern, he'd made her practically throw herself at him.
140, A young man was chained to the back of the cart for pretending to be a priest.
141, She wrote that note while pretending to look in her handbag.
142, Same country accent: I tried practising it in my head, pretending I was a rosy-cheeked barmaid serving cider.
143, Pretending to be an Arab, Phillips stood in the middle of the track with a blanket over his head.
144, Show some spunk . Quit pretending you're being abused.
145, Pretending to faint was merely ( an ) artifice.
146, The captain was astern, pretending he was sleeping.
147, Are you pretending to be a scarecrow?
148, I saw your smiling mask, pretending naivete, no matter what is goody - goody.
149, So, Alex, are you still pretending to be an archaeologist?
150, It is a fake identity through which a member of an Internet community discusses or comments on oneself or one's work, pretending to be a different person, like a puppeteer manipulating a hand puppet.
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