Pretenders in a sentence

Peter III was the more popular option for pretenders since there existed legends that he was not actually dead, allowing pretenders to convince discontented Russians they were Peter III.

Pretenders did not plague Catherine's reign because of her sex or nationality since pretenders never threatened other female rulers or rulers of foreign descent in the way that Catherine II was.

The rise of pretenders was not related to war or famine as neither appeared consistently with the pretenders.

After The Smiths, Rourke played alongside The Pretenders and Sinead O’Connor, as well as with the supergroup Freebass, which included Gary Mounfield from the Stone Roses and Peter Hook from New Order.

He found and nurtured an impressive array of new talent throughout his career, including The Pretenders, Ice T, The Smiths, Depeche Mode and Aphex Twin, before retiring in 2018 at the age of 75.

However, like all young pretenders, he has reason to believe he can make his mark at the top table.

Memorial Day is a traditional milepost that is supposed to separate contenders from pretenders.

The group has garnered support from music stars such as Billie Eilish, Arcade Fire, Bon Iver, The 1975, Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders and more.

When their plot failed, Dooku violently ended their partnership, but they soon became part of the Shadow Collective, led by the Sith pretenders Maul and Savage Oppress.

And we’re talking a proper, shortcrust pastry top, sides and bottom pie too – not one of those dish-with-a-pastry-top pretenders.

Gigs I'm looking forward to seeing include Paul Weller, The National, The The and The Pretenders.

Just like Nakamura overcame LA Knight (who, by the way, is still awesome even in defeat), WWE has once again proven its dominance over the pretenders at AEW.

Lead singer Chrissie Hynde found her backing band of guitarist James Honeyman-Scott, bassist Pete Farndon, and drummer Martin Chambers to form the Pretenders in 1978.

The MLB All-Star break is over and now it's time for the contenders to start separating themselves from the pretenders.

All pretenders to the leadership of our people, badly underestimate the capabilities of our people to see through the charade.

Chrissie has her own ideas for 'alternative' future concerts, musing she'd like to 'pull out any obscure Pretenders thing' on stage and say: "'Here's something you've never heard,' and they're (fans) like, 'Oh, OK.

If it’s Baszler, she’s already said she wants to prove her MMA background makes her different from the pro wrestling pretenders in WWE.

Nick Foles looks like the latest in a long line of QB pretenders.

As October begins, the pretenders start giving way to the contenders.

As we head into week five of the 2019 college football season, we’re starting to see who is legitimate and who are the pretenders.