Sentence examples for a pretense from inspiring English sources

If it was a pretense.

It's little more than a lure, and also a pretense.

Instead, it should be accompanied by a pretense of humility.

And permanence, by its nature, offers a pretense of truth.

There were no seals; it was a pretense.

There wasn't even a pretense of chastising the new man.

I think making a pretense of civility toward Eric Alterman is like making a pretense of civility to a scorpion.

With conference realignment, there isn't even a pretense that it is about anything but the money.

More often than seems plausible they even convince themselves that it isn't really a pretense.

"He was not an angel; he never made a pretense of being one," she once said.

Today, he said, prisons have taken over the job, with barely a pretense of treatment.