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Example sentences for: pretends

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

There's a part of me that's sort of amazed and outraged that a small handful of mostly unqualified individuals throws an awards ceremony--a ceremony in which the voters are notoriously susceptible to the influence of personal meetings with stars, lavish luncheons, and other perks--and everyone pretends that the whole thing is legit.
‘Of course, there are developmental differences between people and fish, and no one pretends that we can answer every question about human development in zebrafish’.
"Today we saw what 'compassionate conservativism' pretends to be," harrumphed Sen.
One of the most inventive sources for neologisms is the cross-cultural pun: the expression that pretends to be English but is in fact Japanese.
Beneath its pious talk of visions and core beliefs, it is teaching a lesson about politics that is much shabbier and much more real than the one it pretends to teach.