Sentence examples for my pretense from inspiring English sources

All my pretense of having a "normal" life vanished into thin air.

Later, he wrote of the experience, "The grinding boredom and the unnaturalness of my pretense to anonymity soon drove me out of that place..

I prefer credit to cash transactions, just to avoid my pretense of counting change, and I'm still balancing my checkbook by instinct and the grace of God.

Later, he wrote of the experience, "The grinding boredom and the unnaturalness of my pretense to anonymity soon drove me out of that place...

Occasionally, I will use "going to look for the bighorn sheep" as my pretense to get my son to agree to go for a ride.

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

"Listen, my life was a pretense the whole time," Edward Zasadil, who is eighty-six, told GQ, recalling his service in the Second World War.

That I can escape this world upon my release, that I still have opportunities available to me, and that I still can maintain the pretense of class privilege, is both my blessing and my shame.

Now, I make no pretense that these are my concerns.

Guilt, buried secrets, miscarriages of justice — the air of "All My Sons" is thick with the pretense that none of this is happening, which requires the actors to play two parts at once.

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