Sentence examples for a pretense to get from inspiring English sources

Later, Raj enters Baldev's shop after closing time, and fakes a strong headache, using it as a pretense to get the shop open to buy beer.

Perhaps it's because concern for low- and middle-income savers was never anything more than a phony pretense to get members of Congress to weigh in against a rule they haven't even seen.

Occasionally, I will use "going to look for the bighorn sheep" as my pretense to get my son to agree to go for a ride.

Investigative journalists routinely cut through mountains of lies and pretense to get to the truth.

Here I am, in effect, using a pretense to convey information about the real world.

She has been on a couple of surveillances and has found she is good at what the industry refers to as "pretext calls" -- calling people under false pretenses to get information from them.

Patient uses this as a pretense to quarantine himself from friends and family.

And now that we know for certain all the false pretenses used to get us there in the first place, it is intolerable!

Nathan Lee in his review for The Village Voice wrote, "Yet it's his very lack of pretense, coupled with a determination to get the facts down with maximum economy and objectivity, that gives Zodiac its hard, bright integrity.

There is, for one thing, an attempt to get past pretense.

No pretense of expecting to get in.