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Example sentences for: pretends

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The tyrannical president pretends to get beat up by popular wrestlers chafing under his authority, and WWF fans go wild.
(In the film, as in life, Kaufman goes to the Philippines to visit a healer who pretends to remove diseased-looking entrails--actually, concealed animal parts--from Kaufman's body.
When Gore hires a bunch of inside-the-Beltway political hacks and pretends there's no contest for the nomination, he's a risible Washington stiff.
As soon as Hal ascends to the throne, however, he pretends not to know his old and embarrassing mentor:
5) Nothing is more political than a politician who pretends not to be one.