Sentence examples for it's a pretence from inspiring English sources

He ended his argument by saying: "I believe it's a pretence.

"It's traditional for United fans to act as though the derby doesn't matter, that they have bigger fish to fry, but it's a pretence they have struggled to keep up in recent years.

"People ram revolution at us – it's a complete pretence," Roberts adds.

It's a little bit of pretence that then sticks".

Sometimes, there's a pretence to loftiness – these are arguments about truth and beauty, honest!

Anything that's critical to the functioning of our economy is a public utility - let's stop the pretence that it's a commercial organisation.

I think if you have pretence; like there is in the USA, that cost isn't of any relevance…then you're going down the wrong path (PHCP) It's a question of who pays for all these things.

"It's purely a pretence that Britain is an independent nuclear power.

So rather than get in trouble all over again, hapless Bill has to look after his boys and pretend to be a decent bloke and single dad for the authorities' benefit – and discovers it might not be a pretence after all.

It would just be a pretence, thinking that they understood the implications.

It is a show, a token, a pretence of a strut on the world stage.