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Example sentences for: pretender

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James Edward Stuart, known as the “Old Pretender,” traveled up the Firth of Forth in 1708 but was driven back by British ships and bad weather.
On the causeway leading off Old Church Lane is Prince Charlie’s Cottage, where the “Young Pretender” stayed in 1745 while planning his strategy to defeat the English and retake the British throne.
The young slacker Bush, called by his country, avenging his father against the sinful pretender.
Another campaign was held in 1715 under the Jacobite Earl of Mar, but it was the 1745 rising of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, the “Young Pretender,” which became the stuff of legend.
Only Seattle had the guts to tell the truth, and to cut that truth in stone, by paying tribute to the real European "discoverer" of America and the people who explored and settled Vinland half a millennium before the Italian pretender acting for Spain.