Wondering how to use Pretend in a sentence? Below are 20 example sentences from real English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as claim or affect.
Pretend in a sentence
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Pretend meaning
- To speak or behave so as to give a false or simulated appearance.
- To engage in make-believe.
Synonyms of Pretend
Pretend in Dutch
Example sentences (20)
It's all well and good to pretend that money doesn't make the world go around but that shiat doesn't pay the bills.
She and “the girls” would meet at the club and “all pretend to each other that we were supporting the community”.
Faith said Iyabo could not pretend to be someone she was not for five months and he could not act for that long.
How anybody can let politicians play them for fools and pretend these vaudeville-style shows are harmful is beyond me.
The type that admit it’s a big deal to be in the ring with Hogan, the type who pretend it isn’t and it was a big deal.
Thus making the killer even more dangerous as he uses this to kill creatively and pretend to be a harmless toy.
The politicians and those who can make a change do not cater to that portion of society; they only pretend to.
We ask ourselves: But should the Pope pretend that Putin did not say what all the major world media are reporting today?
Furthermore, she made it clear that she was enraged by those who pretend to be helping her but are not actually doing so.
For Utah Gov. Spencer Cox: Pretend to care about the people of your state as much as you care about a chicken's happiness.
In a world where our identities are inextricable from our digital footprints, the Entity can pretend to be anyone it likes.
However, convicted criminals were officially barred from applying, which would have disqualified the pretend Chinese client.
It’s the latter kind that concerns a simmering violence that, if you squint hard enough, you could pretend isn’t even there.
Let's not pretend giving parents a choice of schools solves the problem of our inadequate public schools.
This isn’t, as the vaccine-phobic community likes to pretend, because of some shared moral position in the medical community.
Lionel says that his choreography on top of everything else, the way he pretend himself, he was on fire.
No. I couldn’t pretend I was sober for a whole year, be an AA star and an international spy, all while having fantastic bangs.
Real Housewives of Salt Lake City's Jen Shah: Pretend you're not going to a glorified spa for 6.5 years.
Neither of these accomplished people would have to pretend to be anything less than they are in a relationship with each other.
Perhaps it is more accurate to say I have made my uneasy peace with it, which I pretend is not minding.
Common combinations with pretend
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- pretend to 77×
- to pretend 51×
- pretend that 39×
- and pretend 20×
- can pretend 10×
- we pretend 6×
- pretend they 6×
- just pretend 6×
- not pretend 5×
- who pretend 5×
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