Sentence examples for my pretence from inspiring English sources

(Comments like that will quickly put pay to my pretence).

Mitko didn't say anything in reply, he smiled and stepped into a stall and unbuttoned his fly, and my pretence of hesitation fell away as I realised I would pay whatever price he wanted.

There was no sneaking off to check the scores on my phone under the pretence I was going to the gents.

"I'm currently 'nurdling' papers around my desk in the pretence of working, as I'm sure, is everyone else reading this," says Jamie Reeman.

I didn't tell my family I was obliged to watch last night's instalment early for professional reasons, and by the time you've read this I will have shamelessly used this advantage to further the pretence of my expertise.

Trust went out of the window.'ItIt was a paradox - bad things were being done to me, but the people who were doing them weren't bad; they were good.' 'I have been searching for love for the rest of my life.' 'I learnt pretence as a way of life.

Those in the hospice where my mother died made no pretence, and therefore ensured enough diamorphine for her to be unconscious.

I turned hamburgers into hockey pucks and pasta into pudding, triggered fire alarms, splattered stove tops with obscene amounts of grease, left mountains of dishes in my wake – all in the pretence of doing things the professional way.

My teacher swept away any pretence of writers' block.

So I'm still writing, but the pretence of 'writing is my career' is dissipating.

I realised that the pretence of non-genetic families is my issue.