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Example sentences for: pretensions

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

This kind of establishmentarian guarding of the gates actually goes against the scientific pretensions of economics--and its progress as a field.
2) China's democratic pretensions are a joke.
The French have no monopoly on intellectual pretensions or on muddled thinking.
Others attack his pretensions to being a Sensitive New Age Guy, and they damn him with the faint praise that he makes good late-night mood music.
The pedagogical pretensions of encyclopedic dictionaries must be taken with a grain of salt, though their skewing may be a fair reflection of the limited knowledge that speech communities have of the worthies of whom other speech communities boast.