Sentence examples for feigning to from inspiring English sources
The phrase "feigning to" is not commonly used in written English and may be considered awkward or incorrect in certain contexts
It can be used when describing someone pretending to do something or putting on a false appearance regarding an action or intention. Example: "She was feigning to be interested in the conversation, but her mind was elsewhere."
My mother and aunt survived by feigning to be dead.
De Gaulle, feigning to inspect the frogs on her dolman, replied: "Indeed!
Later at the party, Ms. Cuevas snipped off some of the girl's hair while feigning to remove gum on the girl's head.
He may already appreciate that his most realistic ambition, biblically, is to be not the Joshua who takes Labour into the promised land but the Moses who leads the party out of bondage to the Blairite/Brownite ideology, into a spell in the wilderness that will not – with David Cameron elegantly feigning to colonise the centre ground – be brief.
While Ken Loach's 1966 BBC play, Cathy Come Home, did much to strip the scales from Britain's eyes about the calamity of homelessness, Cathy's fictional plight seems unlikely to greatly detain audiences of today, more routinely tickled (if not feigning to be outraged) by Channel 4's Benefits Street.
He completed his treble by feigning to shoot before finding the bottom corner 15 minutes from full-time.
But Sir Boris of Islington … He feigns to bow before me.
No one else could even feign to know his moods, the source of his abrupt decisions.
He feigns to want to reduce the polarisation in the education system and society.
Yet often the pretender begins to love truly after all, and often becomes what he has feigned to be.
Matisse feigned to break out into fits of laughter when he saw it, but he knew what its purpose was.
