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Example sentences for: pretend

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Trouble is, the need to pretend you're not just pandering acts as a restraint on all but the most cynical panderers.
Surely you wouldn't be so flippant with a list of pejoratives associated with another minority group--blacks or Hispanics, for instance--or pretend that one negatively perceived member of the group stands for the whole.
You don't have to pretend that you're not.
He wrote, "To pretend that this was done to strengthen American confidence in Europe and faith in its credibility is frankly to expect too much of our credulity."
I love her mocking eggheads at jazz clubs ("I do enjoy the intelligentsia's pretending they know a horn from a harp while the musicians pretend they know a book from a bookie").