Sentence examples for making believe that from inspiring English sources

Idiom

To make believe.

To pretend.

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QUESTION: And making believe that you love them, just like them.

In an era when corporations lay off thousands of workers at a time, he faulted these statements for making believe that management's and labor's interests were one and the same.

Making believe that the shrunken electorate of 2014 is somehow a proxy for 2016 is delusional at best.

Eliot sharply faults the governor's arithmetic on cutting taxes and making believe that his loophole closing would come close to paying for that.

Forgiveness is not about making believe that people are better than they are or that human nature is more benign than it is.

To take one example, she would throw a pair of ropes on the floor and tell them to jump across the gap, making believe that there was a shark-infested sea to cross".

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Officials make believe that just banks are paying it".

On weekends, we make believe that we're chefs.

Make believe that the people have a voice or make believe that the representatives of the people are the people".

"Make believe that the king is divine, make believe that he can do no wrong or make believe that the voice of the people is the voice of God.

"Visa and MasterCard like to make believe that they're competitors.

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