Sentence examples for feign to from inspiring English sources

They no longer even feign to care.

In football, prospective professional players have essentially no choice but to attend college, or feign to.

No one else could even feign to know his moods, the source of his abrupt decisions.

But the data for this, of course, are nonexistent, and Albright and Ashbrook do not even feign to find them.

The smiles and bows that accompany their daily greetings only feign to be about an exchange of news.

There is the more tasteful luxury of Philippe de Rothschild's estate in Bordeaux, where the guests feign to ignore the stench of a new refinery built upwind.

In Simulacra and Simulation, Baudrillard writes: "To dissimulate is to feign not to have what one has.

In 1953, abandoning nearly all their possessions, they escaped to the West on a train, with young Polke ordered to feign sleep, to deflect suspicion.

The occasional middle-class citizen trapped in this mix quickly learns to feign recovery to escape.

"With college students," Dr. Berry said in an interview, "it's clear that it doesn't take much information for someone who wants to feign A.D.H.D. to do so".

My mother and aunt survived by feigning to be dead.