Sentence examples similar to a reasonable pretext from inspiring English sources

Had she seriously entertained the idea of ringing the doorbell and being invited inside again, without any reasonable pretext, into that place where she most definitely wasn't wanted?

Alaska courts currently allow pretext investigative stops so long as a reasonable officer following permissible police practices could have made the stop for the proffered reason.

A reasonable landlord.

— a reasonable goal.

A reasonable question.

seems a reasonable estimate.

The court, after rehearsing a number of earlier decisions, observed that "the First Amendment does not require an educator to change the assignment to suit the student's opinion," as long as the assignment has a reasonable relationship "to legitimate pedagogical goals" and as long as the policy of no exemptions was applied evenly and was not a pretext for discrimination.

A reasonable question, this.

It's a reasonable claim.

It's a reasonable worry.

Make a reasonable ask.