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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:

Then there was the pretense of simply presenting the facts, which put the author on a pedestal beyond the reach of quarrel and made his or her conclusion seem inexorable.
There hasn't been any pretense, as there often is with these kinds of books, that the nominal author actually wielded the pen.
Accepting these realities will help you to behave in a more accommodating way without pretense.
What makes the exhibition truly dreary, however, is the pretense that it's daring, when really it's an exercise in intellectual conformity.
, there would be no pretense of an obligation to invade Russia or China or far-flung regions like East Timor).