Words similar to pretends

Example sentences for: pretends

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

The benefits that come with the new position (free beer, cheerleaders slathered in whipped cream) get lots of screen-time, and at points the film is almost "a poor man's Porky's " (Andy Seiler, USA Today ). John Anderson pans it in the Los Angeles Times ("a trashy little movie about drinking, football and drinking"), saying it "pretends to moralize about the very behavior it milks for every giggle it can get."
(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.
The museum pretends to teach the lessons of man's inhumanity to man--especially man's inhumanity to woman--and visitors make the appropriate noises of disgust as they study each device.
"Today we saw what 'compassionate conservativism' pretends to be," harrumphed Sen.
As soon as Hal ascends to the throne, however, he pretends not to know his old and embarrassing mentor: