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:

Bradley's problem is that he seems to believe it, too, but pretends he doesn't.
A slim-waisted woman, closely resembling the figure down the corridor in A Courtyard in Delft , raises her cup to two men, one of whom pretends to play a fiddle with two pipes.
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.
All except for Patagonia, that is, which pretends its Synchilla fleece is something else.
But, like the British public--which demands more celebrity photos even as it shouts for journalists' blood--Earl Spencer has a much more ambivalent (read: "hypocritical") relationship with the press than he pretends to have.