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Example sentences for: pretensions

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The French have no monopoly on intellectual pretensions or on muddled thinking.
The sets were cheesy, the music was awful 1980s synth-pop, and despite their martial-arts pretensions, the routines felt more like aerobics in disguise than like kung fu.
Most women feel less oppressed by their husbands' pretensions to authority than by the work that falls to them because of their husbands' neglect.
Falstaff teaches Hal how to be a quick-witter punster and a master of play; he also teaches him a commoner's skepticism of power and its pretensions.
Die Welt of Germany said Monday in an editorial page article signed Katja Ridderbusch that "if the United States wants to be consistent with its own pretensions, it has no choice but to approve the idea of a world system of justice."