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Example sentences for: pretending

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Three or four sturdy fellows are appointed to lead and whip the cat: these, on a signal given, seize the nd of the cord, and, pretending to whip the cat, haul the astonished booby through the water.
First, while pretending to accept human nature as a given, he violates it by peddling strangers' eggs and encouraging the production of children who will probably never know their mothers.
But since such pedarastic revelations are (surprisingly) rare, pols sometimes must settle for the next best thing: pretending that their opponent coddles child molesters.
Chatterbox doesn't much care whether Social Security funds are tapped for current spending, but he knows the Republicans are making a big show of caring about that and therefore are being somewhat dishonest in pretending that they won't.
Yes, it's "awkwardly executed and tedious," but Williams "does some of his best and most honest work here"(Jack Mathews, the New York Daily News ) as a man who brings hope to his Jewish ghetto by pretending to have good news from a hidden radio.