Sentence examples for my pretext from inspiring English sources

Ironically, my pretext for meeting him was that I wanted to write a book about him when all I really wanted was the thrill of meeting my literary hero whom I regarded as the Einstein of twentieth-century fiction.

Don't ask me what my legal pretext was.

What if the border guards plant some allegedly stolen national treasures in my baggage as a pretext to detain me?

And so I must say that as much as I both pity and need the angry birds (they are the pretext for my anger and the expression of it), I hate them too.

In my opinion, that was pretext for searching the car".

"My Paris gallery was just the pretext for me to go out and find paintings.

Who cares if the friendliness is all a pretext to get at my baby?

But, one day, they took me to another village on the pretext of looking after my sister's newborn baby, and there I was forcibly offered to the shepherd.

My name Muhamed provided an obvious pretext for exclusion, as well as an accent, (more British from being educated in an English school in Libya).

"I don't want this to continue to be a pretext for offending and defaming my family," she said.

"Before, music was the centre of my life and life was almost a pretext to go inside the music.