Sentence examples for pretence being from inspiring English sources

The EU-27 cannot be expected to accommodate the lazy pretence being peddled by Mr Johnson that Britain can have its cake and eat it.

But the pretence is slipping.

But the pretence is wearing thin.

But not all pretence is culpable.

Now such pretence is out of the window.

The pretence is that this could all be above board.

But the pretence was maintained that the shuttle was a workaday craft.

Within 20 minutes, the pretence is dropped as an unexpected PDF attachment gives it a hernia.

Later, the music changes from Chopin to Calvin Harris and I'm relieved the pretence is over.

To take money from people on any false pretence is criminal.

What a scant, foolish pretence was a family, a culture, a place in history, when it was all so easily defamed.