Sentence examples for it pretended from inspiring English sources

Ireland was not as comfortable with its stereotype as it pretended to be for its own survival, he said, and there is little nostalgia for the misty past.

It pretended not to be a fair and almost got away with it.

The problem with iPhone and Apple Mac software is that it pretended to be something else.

The season felt like the opposite of "The Comeback": it happily fellated the corrupt system that it pretended to satirize.

Then communism collapsed – and along with it many of the gender equality measures it pretended to champion.

Instead, it pretended that it did not matter that the Libyan dictatorship was a dictatorship and changed the conversation.

Despite its soft environmentalist message "The Lorax" is an example of what it pretends to oppose.

Nor does it pretend to be.

Why should any piece of it pretend not to be?

Otherwise, it pretends that the evidence doesn't exist.

It pretends that it cannot buy happiness but does just that.