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Example sentences for: pretended

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By the fall of 2000, Hazmi no longer even pretended to study English or take flying lessons.
They were all envious, or pretended to be, which was just as gratifying.
In 1950, King Tribhuvan pretended he was going on a shooting picnic and managed to escape to India.
Among the most important distortions she exposes are: an invented psychology degree from the University of Vienna; pretended acquaintance with Freud; guardianship of an autistic child whom his first wife in fact tended; unreliable accounts of his ordeals in Dachau and Buchenwald; and exaggerated claims of success as a benevolent savior of emotionally disturbed children at the Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School at the University of Chicago.
I pretended to fill tumblers of ice-cold milk and to drink them with apparent delight.