Sentence examples for feign being from inspiring English sources

"Spitzer had to feign being a nice guy, regular guy, unassuming, right?

I feign being unfazed by this; it's my first experience of tutoring the super-rich.

"He had a lot of appointments, and he would feign being sick or purposely be difficult when going to his appointments.

Frédéric says that his mother had a dire need for attention and, on the rare occasions that he saw her, she would feign being deathly ill and make him run to get help.

The first recorded case of cheating in the Olympic Games dates from at least 388BC, when a boxer named Eupholus of Thessaly bribed an opponent to feign being knocked out and was sentenced to finance a new golden statue to Zeus for his transgression.

Quagliarella feigns being punched in the face.

The stooge tripped, acted silly, feigned being foolish.

As part of the scheme, Leamas feigns being an alcoholic, and MI6 pretends to fire him.

When writing from Lizzie's perspective, I wasn't feigning being Lizzie.

Her scene in which she feigns being a backward bumpkin is hilarious.

Grant feigned being diabetic which seemed to calm things down a bit".