Sentence examples for make a pretense of from inspiring English sources
The three movements offer little happiness; nor do they make a pretense of beauty in the usual sense.
Police officers and soldiers stop drivers, make a pretense of checking their papers, and declare, "A page is missing".
Jews and Roman Catholics were allowed to build houses of worship, but the city directory didn't even make a pretense of equating them to Hartford's Protestant churches.
"Why don't we make a pretense of being nice to each other?" Still, it was a long way from the old irascibility.
Most story writers make a pretense of beginning in one place and ending in another; in his new collection, "The Spot," as in all of his work, Means hardly ever bothers.
The problem, he said, was "mutual distrust," including deep suspicions on the Western side that Iran may make a pretense of negotiating merely to buy more time for its nuclear scientists.
I think making a pretense of civility toward Eric Alterman is like making a pretense of civility to a scorpion.
Lawmakers in Albany never even made a pretense of considering it.
"He was not an angel; he never made a pretense of being one," she once said.
As more and more Beaujolais production went into nouveau, growers no longer made a pretense of striving for quality.
He put a stethoscope on Luke's chest and made a pretense of looking for a heartbeat, but we all knew there was nothing there.
