Sentence examples for an pretext from inspiring English sources

MY MORNING JACKET Without even an anniversary as an pretext, My Morning Jacket, the Kentucky band with the pealing three-guitar arrangements and the keening lead vocals of Jim James, is to perform all five of its studio albums in their entirety, one per concert: "The Tennessee Fire" on Oct. 18, "At Dawn" Oct. 19, "It Still Moves" Oct. 21, "Z" Oct. 22 and "Evil Urges" Oct. 23.

A top Russian diplomat warned in a visit to Lebanon this weekend that the charges should not be used as an "pretext" for an Iraq-style intervention in Syria, Moscow's long-time ally.

As the truism states "a text without a context is a pretext for a prooftext".

In these filmmakers' world, sex is a pretext, a premise; it's a relationship-starter but not a relationship-maker.

The cartoons, she maintained, were a pretext, a way to mobilize dissent in the Muslim world.

But this conceit is, thankfully, only a conceit, a pretext to revel in the details.

Seropositivity is not a pretext for an ongoing disease but a measure of exposure.

A year later, Iraq is no longer a pretext or an abstraction.

Israeli officials say the Palestinians used the visit as a pretext for an uprising.

In a way, the story becomes a pretext for developing a new way to choreograph.

Kosovo was a pretext, not a central factor, he says.