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Example sentences for: pretended

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Izvestiya said that "the G-7 leaders only pretended that everything was OK in Russia's economy.
I pretended to fill tumblers of ice-cold milk and to drink them with apparent delight.
For decades we had a rule for the proper relationship between government expenditures and revenues--or we pretended to have a rule.
In 1950, King Tribhuvan pretended he was going on a shooting picnic and managed to escape to India.
This column will not address such issues as pension rights and job security (though it will refer to them from time to time out of guilt--at one point, earlier in my life, I pretended to be a democratic socialist, and I was for a time an actual kibbutznik).