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Example sentences for: pretending

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It's the Democrats who are supposed to be pretending that we can conduct business as usual during an impeachment trial.
To pretend that Monica is not a problem for the image of Jewish women is like pretending that O.J.
But everyone is pretending this is some sort of real industry honor.
Next to these films, the moral contortions of 8MM seem especially bogus, a sadomasochistic peep show booth pretending to be a confessional.
{ {Boys 1#36194}} Boys Don't Cry --a just-released dramatic film about a woman who was raped and murdered in a small Nebraska town for pretending to be a man--hews fairly closely to what really happened to 21-year-old Brandon Teena (nee Teena Brandon).