pretence造句
1. If you want a pretence to whip a dog, say that he ate the frying-pam.
2. It was all an elaborate pretence.
3. He made no pretence of great musical knowledge.
4. Welland made a pretence of writing a note in his pad.
5. She was unable to keep up the pretence that she loved him.
6. Altman strips away the pretence and mythology to expose the film industry as a business like any other.
7. She made absolutely no pretence of being interested.
8. She isn't really ill; it's only pretence.
9. Their friendliness was only pretence.
10. The playwright cocooned himself in a world of pretence.
11. Their way of life was all pretence.
12. His pretence at friendliness fooled no one.
13. The theory made the greatest pretence of having a scientific foundation.
14. The army has given up any pretence of neutrality in the war.
15. We have to go along with the pretence that things are getting better.
16. I make no pretence to being an expert on the subject.
17. He was hanged without even the pretence of a proper trial.
18. I make no pretence to be an expert on the subject.
19. Now that the pretence was over, he could tell them what he really thought.
20. He ripped away the mask of pretence which covered their activities.
21. John waited for her under the pretence of tying his shoelaces.
22. To make a decent pretence that she cared?
23. Wolfowitz's announcement made that pretence no longer tenable.
24. He didn't like the food, but he made a pretence of eating some of it as he was a guest.
25. By the end of the evening she had abandoned all pretence of being interested.
26. He tried to get close to her under the pretence of examining the pictures on the wall.
27. I don't know how long I can keep up this pretence.
28. How long are you going to keep up the pretence of being ill?
29. The employer often scolded his men on the slightest pretence.
30. The research project will focus on children's comprehension of pretence.
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