Sentence examples for feigned that from inspiring English sources

And in the 10th, when he feigned that low blow, it was disgusting.

The consuls likewise feigned that they had not set out against these people, but were going through their country into the Ligurian territory.

Obama feigned that he would skip mocking Republican front-runner Donald Trump, before digging in.

I am tempted by notions of how much higher I could soar   It may be terrifically trendy among my Corbyn-loving peers to feign that money is of no great importance, will not make you happier, and that fortnight-long jaunts to Antigua are tawdry because, hey, isn't it nicer to holiday in Lowestoft eating home-made Shippam's bloater paste sandwiches, while observing an RNLI display?

Habib, Dia's friend, explained that he had feigned sickness that morning to avoid having to go to the army logistics headquarters where he worked.

Second, despite the double standard, the outrage is still sincere and deeply threatening to pro-American Arab governments; there is a tendency among Israel's supporters to assume that the rage must be feigned, but that's a fantasy.

The Republican approach to race is to feign that it is irrelevant — until it becomes politically advantageous to bring it up.

One is left nodding approvingly at Jorge Luis Borges's wry notion that Shakespeare was someone who adopted "the habit of feigning that he was somebody, so that his 'nobodiness' might not be discovered".

Some manage to feign that love (Mourinho being the best at it), either to get the fans on side or because they're tarts.

4 Agrippina was able to do this deed owing to the fact that she had previously sent Narcissus off to Campania, feigning that he needed to take the waters there for his gout.

It also alleged that protesters were accompanied by "a line of ambulances" out of which they took blood bags to "feign that they had been injured".