Sentence examples for merely pretend from inspiring English sources

Gypsies merely pretend such a thing exists to frighten (or fleece) non-Gypsies.

It's odd that we use the same word to describe those who merely pretend to make magic happen on stage.

The number that merely pretend to apply "know your customer" and other anti-laundering rules is thought to be in the dozens.

He found the line separating high and low culture entirely phony, and preferred to divide the world's images into those that move you and those that merely pretend to sophistication.

And simply taking samesaying as a primitive is to merely pretend to have eliminated propositions from one's theory.

This guy does not merely pretend that he's a knight, he absolutely is one.

Many more, however, have merely pretended to stamp it out.

As an independent saleswoman, she found that customers merely pretended to listen to her.

I can't tell if she is being blithe, or merely pretending to be.

A lot of fiction, moreover, merely pretends to it, invoking its atmosphere without being, in fact, all that weird.

You could, for that matter, also look at actors who merely pretended to be New York prosecutors, like Fred Dalton Thompson.