Sentence examples for As pretended from inspiring English sources

And so Zuckerman, who had never so much as pretended to salute, found himself reviewing a line of eight hundred Chinese soldiers, having no idea what to do — "I mean, I'd seen people in the movies doing it".

He sent two captives as pretended deserters into Croton — one immediately, who declared that Rufinus had despaired of capturing the place and was about to depart for Locris, which was being betrayed to him, and the other later, corroborating this statement with the report that the consul was already on his way.

Other critics argue that it is a parting platitude that comes across as pretended.

Find a way to ignore the low offer, such as pretending you didn't hear it?

I was not so much pretending to be Grace Melbury as pretending to be an actor altogether.

Pretending to save bodies was as profitable as pretending to save souls, if more vulnerable to disproof.

Spy Message Kit: £12, iwmshop.org.uk Few games for youngsters are as fun as pretending to be spies.

Zombies are everywhere – and people are having just as much fun pretending to be them as pretending to be scared of them.

Yet none of those things is quite as bad as pretending to be a proper Muslim, then sneaking off to perform rituals in tombs.

And suddenly, I felt it: that urge to capture the moment, as irrationally irresistible a photo-op as pretending to prop up the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

And removing a fawning statue of a dead racist is not the same as pretending a historical figure didn't exist.