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Example sentences for: pretending

How can you use “pretending” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

It's the Democrats who are supposed to be pretending that we can conduct business as usual during an impeachment trial.
Staring at a computer screen all day, pretending to be busy--it was
Meanwhile, everyone would have the comfort of pretending that, in this sad life, all the tragedy and death wasn't simply meaningless.
The spins: 1) Yeltsin is pretending to entertain this option to placate Russian hard-liners.
To Malcolm this is a kind of hypocrisy: flattering the audience by pretending they know something already when he feels pretty sure they do not.