Sentence examples for ? pretend from inspiring English sources

Carney says the president could not pretend nothing was wrong: The shutdown that we went through had real consequences, real costs.

I listen to their story of woe, try to offer ideas, and secretly resolve that next time I'll pretend I'm a film director instead.

But there has to be one, because although most squatters just need somewhere to live and often maintain mouldering, neglected buildings and save them from terminal collapse and vandalism, what about the few really naughty squatters, who make a mess and noise, pretend to be artists and pinch your home while you're on hols or in hospital?

Pearson does not pretend to be a financial whizz-kid.

Let's pretend I am hoping to write a horror story and have come to you both for advice.

So, in recent years, we've endured 60s, 70s and 80s revivals, punters encouraged to wear silly clothes, like silly music, and generally pretend that crap things were great, a dispiriting travesty of irony, meta-irony, disingenuousness and disingenuity.

However, as the results came in showing the Lib Dem share of the vote imploding, a party spokesperson told journalists gathered at Clegg's constituency count in Sheffield: "I'm not going to pretend that the Liberal Democrats are going to have anything other than a bad night".

And, yes, my heart was broken a little by the way Denton tried to pretend to Arnott that it was "just a cat".

But let's not pretend there aren't people really suffering at the sharp end because there are – lots of them".

No government can pretend to sovereignty and responsibility unless it makes every effort within its power and its means to ensure that outcome.

But what I also know is that we will not allow the conservatives to steal the last five years and pretend they didn't happen," Shorten said.