Sentence examples for let us pretend from inspiring English sources

If we're going to pretend, at least let us pretend well.

He may just be wrong; powerbrokers in Washington, Beijing and Delhi probably have better things to do with their time.But let us pretend they did tune in.

Saving the victims from those engaged in designing ideal orders was not, in truth, as hard as our laziness let us pretend it was.

The stanzas wheel from their premise ("Let us pretend that I am happy"), multiplying perspectives as De la Cruz thinks herself into competing points of view: "If you imagine good fortune/ You will not be so downcast".

OK then, let us pretend we have a woman working part time and earning $48,000 – the current average earnings for all women (and thus a very well paid part-time position).

"Let's pretend," he said, "that I want to write a novel concerning the people or some of the people with whom I grew up, and since we are only playing let us pretend it's a very long novel.

"This can't be one of those Washington gimmicks that lets us pretend we've solved a problem," he said.

This can't be one of those Washington gimmicks that lets us pretend we solved a problem.

The act of typing is an intellectual one and creates a distance on the part of the viewer: social media lets us pretend we're not wallowing in low culture.

He proposed that commission in last year's State of the Union address, saying, "This can't be one of those Washington gimmicks that lets us pretend we solved a problem".

The tax system is practically a fig tree; the corporate income tax, for example, lets us pretend we are taxing corporations when in fact we are taxing the people who own them.