pretend造句
151) In fact, the only social folly I committed was to pretend I understood about contraception.
152) Uncle Harry's style of evasion was to pretend he didn't hear the question.
153) Nevertheless they were two real victories, and it is childish of Bush's opponents to pretend otherwise.
154) She tried to pretend she didn't know what he meant, but his bantering tone had been deceptive.
155) But if you are well known, it seems foolish to pretend otherwise.
156) For a time he tried to pretend, as chil-dren do with their toys.
157) For this you have to pretend you are kneading bread.
158) Despite the statement, an embarrassed Pentagon decided to pretend ignorance.
159) I will tell you: because they only pretend to hate tyranny.
160) You are, or pretend to be, indifferent to whatever may happen to your reputation.
161) You don't have to believe it, but it looks good if you can pretend to hold an opinion.
162) One of these women had been paid to pretend to be sick, and Ingrid was to take her place.
163) Maybe by the time I was born, my parents had no need to pretend unhappiness to placate jealous spirits.
164) I knew at once that something was different, why pretend otherwise?
165) I can not pretend to give a satisfactory answer to these questions.
166) She could relax with them and pretend for a while that she was still one of them.
167) Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.Edgar Watson Howe
168) Their lack of ease with each other is tangible and to pretend otherwise is sheer folly.
169) So the idea is that you have to pretend not to have periods, deny their existence.
170) Meanwhile, the federalists try to pretend that this is not happening, or that it will not matter.
171) He used to buy in a lot of delicacies to pretend to his family that Gina could cook.
172) The situation was very serious indeed, even if the government tried to pretend otherwise.
173) No one can pretend that his stooping, kneeling, and digging figures are beautiful, either by contemporary standards or our own.
174) Exclusion of one third of the electorate does violence to all that we pretend by our adherence to democracy.
175) For strict conventionalism gives only the negative advice that judges must not pretend to be deciding such cases on legal grounds.
176) And yet to pretend that Nathaniel is our sole salvation is too cynical.
177) We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.Kurt Vonnegut
178) I pretend I am in a crib in a wood with the sky above me.
179) Diana hopes that all the pressures of trying to pretend to loyal supporters about her marriage will now be removed.
180) Some were just curious, and would pretend to have lost their way and hope to be invited to spend a night.
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