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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:

In fact, anyone who pretends to have an interest in language and who has a library of worthwhile works on the subject must have all of Safire's language books in his library.
(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.
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.
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.
) Although some find this charming, Language Abusers prefer a style that more subtly pretends to convey two ideas while conveying only one.