Words similar to pretense

Example sentences for: pretense

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

The half-cynical NATO spin: This is part of the Serbs' pretense of reconciliation.
So much for the pretense that Amazon's list of 1.1 million books makes it "Earth's Biggest Bookstore" in even a metaphorical sense.
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:
Accepting these realities will help you to behave in a more accommodating way without pretense.
Here the reviewer needs to drop all pretense of magisterial loft, jump down from the bench, and start testifying.