Sentence examples for any pretense from inspiring English sources

Sometimes pitchers don't make any pretense about their intentions.

Pfizer executives never made any pretense of fairness.

Today, they gave up any pretense of modesty.

At this point, any pretense of subway gravitas is lost.

Without any pretense at courtship, he had simply asked her to marry him.

But any pretense to being a world-class outfit was hard to justify in such surroundings.

By about 1787 most of the companies finally abandoned any pretense of controlling their respective trades.

Which is Carlos in a way, minus any pretense of a grandee, to the end.

But the war brought any pretense of organized two-party politics to an end.

But he seemed uneasy about the collapse of any pretense to Yemeni sovereignty over the north.

Now, at least, Netanyahu no longer makes any pretense of pursuing negotiations with the Palestinian Authority.