Sentence examples for pretending from high-quality English sources.

• Me pretending the same.

• And, ultimately, that is what we were doing: pretending.

• Sarah would be merely pretending to lie to Andrew, in order to deceive him.

• Mae Mobley’s little games include pretending to stage a sit-in at a Woolworth’s counter and pretending to ride the bus with Rosa Parks.

• I'd hooked on to that one word, pretending.

• Pretending to like things was a young person’s game.

• “I was pretending to be a Texan, and she was pretending she wasn’t.”

• This week they are all pretending to be history teachers, before the final round of Spelling Bees.

Use pretending in a sentence.

• In both cases pretending happens, and I am interested in that progression from “pretending to be” to “turning into.”

• Mr Sharon, he said, had no genuine intention of accepting the Mitchell report; he was merely pretending to accept it while emptying it of all significance.

• In the summer, this is flipped to standing in a park, hands tucked into the back pockets of denim shorts, pretending to be at least eight times cooler than I actually am.

• But, if Adam stopped pretending that he was only pretending to be a poet, he would have to write some poems, and confront questions of talent and of vocation.

• This is the reverse of normal for sexual selection, in which there is no point in immature individuals pretending they are mature, nor mature females pretending to be males.

• —we spent a good portion of our adolescent lives pretending to kill each other, pretending to break each other’s arms and legs, pretending to maim, explode, murder, and die.

• For two seasons, I kept forgetting that the twins were played by one person, let alone one person acting like one character pretending to be the other character pretending to be the first character.

• If the monarchy is so vulnerable that a man pretending to be Prince Charles saying mean things to a woman pretending to be his wife damages it gravely, then the institution has probably outlived its usefulness.

pretending sentence examples

• So we were all colluding – they were pretending their violence and I was pretending to believe in it – because without the backstop of action, they were just hysterics in their underpants and I was oversensitive.

• Suzanne’s aged father thinks de G. was acting from the beginning—pretending to be the worn-out old man and then pretending he might step down, and now being the firm old soldier, S. says, “Il en est bien capable.”

• On Friendster, and especially on MySpace, some users are playing roles: thirteen-year-olds pretending to be nineteen, virgins pretending to be vixens, forty-two-year-old F.B.I. agents pretending to be adolescent girls.

• “Even though we knew he was from a conservative background, he was pretending he was supporting women’s active participation in society,” said Tomomi Yamaguchi, a professor of anthropology and sociology at Montana State University who researches Japanese feminism.