Sentence examples for her pretence from inspiring English sources

Case notes I finally realised who Gill reminded me of this week, with her sickly sweet smiles and her pretence at doing things for your own good: she's Dolores Umbridge with the flirtation levels on high.

Her appeal is her lack of pretence.

Co-scripted by Jane's sister Anna, the film has Winslet as a young Australian hoiked back from India by her family on the pretence that her father is terminally ill.

A case that readily comes to mind occurred in 2008 when a 14 year old pupil in Walewale was taken away by her father under the pretence of attending her grandfather's funeral.

Luring her into his home under the pretence of her having a meal with his wife, he bound and gagged her, threw away her mobile phone and raped her.

Like a human child under four years of age, it might be that Koko didn't understand the concept of pretending, or didn't apply her knowledge of pretence uniformly.

Over the telephone she managed to keep up the pretence to her mother that her life was going well.

"There was never any pretence in her voice.

Now she accepts Oz isn't real and has made her peace with the pretence.

She is as swathed in pretence as her husband, but the difference is that she knows it.

In 2008, when he was 17, Reynolds invited a 16-year-old girl to his home on the pretence of her helping with a media project.