Sentence examples for have a pretense from inspiring English sources

"They didn't have a pretense of saving the world through better technology -- it was, we are sort of out to consolidate the industry and gather economic value in the process".

California state needs to tighten its laws to have less ambiguity so the feds don't have a pretense to come in.

She was slight and wore the same T-shirt to bed every night and had a pretense of helplessness, which applied mainly to lifting the five-gallon water jug, but it made loving a skinny girl romantic, and he'd loved her in greater quantity than he'd ever loved anyone.

Now thIn, athosest for me, is a bar.

"None of these guys have any pretense about them," Mr. Witt said.

Mr. Hyneman, however, insists that he and the "Mythbusters" team "don't have any pretense of teaching science".

An iterated fiction (or pretense) is one that has a fiction (or pretense) embedded within it.

Don't become a truth machine in a relationship that has a foundation of pretense without warning.

"I don't have any pretenses about being some powerful figure, no," he added.

Looking back, I can now see that I had a lot of pretenses about who I was supposed to be and had built a life from these "untruths".

If you could have Mitt Romney dress in a costume, what should he be for Halloween?" If nothing else, shouldn't a concern for his own dignity lead Brinkley to have at least a pretense of adversarial substance?