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Example sentences for: pretense

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

We have made a shambles of any pretense of seriousness and dignity.
Yet what makes this place overwhelmingly attractive is its total lack of pretense and completely comfortable ambiance — it remains down-to-earth, genuinely casual, and simply irresistible.
Lawyers will understand that the author is inveighing against precedent only as a false pretense for fake precision, but an innocent layman straying into these pages might well take it from the broad-gauged blasts that the whole doctrine of precedent is a grand illusion, a sort of pseudo-science like astrology, in which lawyers and judges count the angels dancing on the point of a needle:
"There is no pretense that this is about tourism or about a nice night out or this is entertainment.
The test involved staging a surprise "bomb scare" to get employees, who were unaware that the threat was a pretense, to evacuate the building.