Sentence examples for is pretend from inspiring English sources

What is pretend?

Except that this is pretend.

This is pretend, movie-star eating.

What we can't do is pretend it is not happening.

What they do, Hare says, is pretend to feel.

This lesson, at their teacher-training centre, Canterbury Christ Church University College, is pretend.

But what you can't do is pretend there's some other way.

"What you can't aim to do is pretend to be somebody who you're not.

Maybe he was pretending it was Nato.

Actually, he is pretend-running across some luggage lying on a mostly bare stage, but the audience buys the illusion with a smile.

Then he can be welcomed back, his work judged on its merits instead of on his personal mystique, or his photography left to stand on its own instead of being attached to a discourse about what he brought to fashion and why he is pretend-estranged from it.