Sentence examples for pretence from high-quality English sources.

• All pretence of compassion, care and solidarity gone.

• The rebels have dropped all pretence that they are disarming.

• Oh, there is no necessity to keep up the pretence of ignorance.

• Pretence or make-believe operators shield their propositional objects from existential exportation (Leng 2010).

• Why has Mr Ortega torn up all pretence of democracy in Nicaragua?

• We can't disguise hostility towards any religion behind the pretence of liberalism.

• In France François Hollande has given up the pretence that his country leads the continent (see Charlemagne).

• “Really approachable staff, the highest quality of coffee with the least pretence imaginable and they are repeatedly awarded the best café in the city.

Use pretence in a sentence.

• Just months ago, the Scottish Tories were maintaining the pretence that they were something different from the extremist no-deal Brexiteers of the Boris Johnson camp.

• Professor Viner added: “Clearly children can be asymptomatic, children can be infectious, clearly they can carry risk for adults, there is no pretence that they do not.

• To restrain this, is inevitably to bring a Rust upon Mens Understandings. ’Tis a destroying of Civility, Good Breeding and even Charity it-self, under pretence of maintaining it.

• The agency's new executive director Ericka J Whitaker released a statement: "I make no pretence of knowing what actually occurred with all parties allegedly involved in this case.

• We persist with the great pretence that we can continue to power industry and manufacturing with our abundant fossil fuels, ambling along with plans for a “transition” at some unspecified future time.

• Katharine Birbalsingh, head of Michaela Community School, in Brent, north London, criticised the "pretence" social distancing might work in schools, with narrow corridors, small classrooms and lots of interactions, particularly between younger children.

• The plot of the novel rests on deception and pretence, its view of humanity bleak; yet Collins’s themes of friendship, betrayal, authority and oppression, as well as the extra layers of lore about mockingjays and Capitol’s history, will please and thrill.

• Scottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie said Ms Davidson was due some credit for "ending the pretence and resigning", while Scottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie said Ms Davidson had "run out of reasons to stand by this dangerous and power hungry prime minister".

pretence sentence examples

• Sheppard, a former Queensland crown prosecutor, was arrested in Port Moresby on Thursday and charged with two counts of conspiracy and two of false pretence over the alleged defrauding of a fund established to assist impoverished communities in PNG’s Western Province.

• “In England and throughout this multi-racial Commonwealth its peoples know that despite the hypocrisy and pretence, the Bill’s measures apply to immigration in general, in fact, it applied primarily and solely to prevent the entry and also the ejection of coloured citizens”.

• "We see many different types of drugs being used in Northern Ireland and while it may not be widespread, fentanyl is extremely potent, and can be mixed in with another substance, for example heroin or cocaine, and it may also be sold under the pretence it is another substance.

• The men "defrauded hundreds of thousands of donors, capitalising on their interest in funding a border wall to raise millions of dollars, under the false pretence that all of that money would be spent on construction" along the US-Mexico border, US Attorney Strauss said in a statement.