Sentence examples for i pretending from inspiring English sources
It might be different today, but in my time it took the form of a role-playing exercise, my classmates and I pretending to be graduates, and the teacher assuming the part of an average citizen: the soldier, the bloodletter, the whore with a heart of gold.
One afternoon, having hired a scooter (very Roman Holiday) and getting very lost ("Look," said I, pretending I knew where we were. "It's the second Coliseum!" But as we'd driven past it 20 minutes earlier, my wife, Plaxy, was neither convinced nor impressed), we found ourselves in this extraordinary little piazza in the Jewish Ghetto.
People were thinking who was I pretending to be the Virgin Mary or the whore?
Why am I pretending I spent a Friday night getting excited about a Twitter account periodically tweeting the name of yet another DJ I'd never heard of?
I pretended I was thinking.
"I pretended I did," she said.
I pretended I didn't see him.
I pretended not to notice.
