Sentence examples for could almost pretend from inspiring English sources
If you stood on the first fairway at the Mosholu Golf Course in the Bronx and had a full measure of the Walter Mitty that seems part of every golfer, you could almost pretend that the sound of the No. 4 train pulling into Woodlawn Station was the sound of surf on the rocks below Pebble Beach Golf Links in Monterey, Calif., where the 100th United States Open is being played this weekend.
And it is: It's racism of a very old sort, the type that we could almost pretend had gone away forever; not just a vague personal antipathy, but properly genocidal, eliminationist racism.
On a night with miserable outdoor concert weather -- chilly temperatures, with just enough rain to turn the L.A. State Historic Park into a frigid mud slurry -- when the trio of DJs kicked on the midfield snowblowers, you could almost pretend that you were actually raving astride a Swedish fjord.
"This is exactly what Maui looks like". "Then why would anyone bother to go to Maui?" I mused, adding that if you disregarded the dump trucks disgorging their loads of gunk onto the sand, ignored the uprooted trees that littered the roadway and tried not to look at the three feet of mud that buckled the garage doors of the beach dwellers, you could almost pretend you were in paradise.
"You could almost make a two-bedroom".
Lord's, sun-buttered and warm of welcome on an early summer's morning, the horrors of a scorched Australia and that dreadful 5-0 thrasoing so far away that you could shut your eyes and almost pretend it never happened.
We could drink, we could procrastinate, we could pretend we don't have the deadline.
Skinny Baby: Yeah, but if you close your eyes and pretend, the strawberry flavor could almost pass for Starbursts, which are totally fat-free.
Strolling into the Ghostbusters' office, he asks the women, "Why are you pretending to catch ghosts?" Close your eyes, and he could almost be a troll.
