Sentence examples for commonly pretended from inspiring English sources

In the anti-metaphysical intellectual environment of the 1930s and 1940s (of which logical positivism was at least symptomatic), any mention of causation became highly suspicious, and economists commonly pretended to avoid causal concepts.

No one pretended otherwise.

He should have pretended.

I pretended to cry.

He only pretended to.

Marty pretended to know.

Others pretended to faint.

He pretended to groan.

She often pretended.

He could have pretended.

She told stories, I pretended to listen.