Sentence examples for a pretence from inspiring English sources

George Osborne can't even muster a pretence.

It is a pretence that can be indulged.

What one cannot do is simultaneously keep up a pretence of humanitarianism.

What is more, this babe is making a pretence at gesturing like a king.

The number of African leaders who can eschew even a pretence of democracy is shrinking.

He ended his argument by saying: "I believe it's a pretence.

Van Marwijk's opposite number did not make a pretence of modesty.

With no need to even make a pretence of cleaning up after themselves.

But on Thatcher's watch, Britishness was now just bunting, a Falklands mug, a pretence.

"It's purely a pretence that Britain is an independent nuclear power.

It is a show, a token, a pretence of a strut on the world stage.