Sentence examples for pretence was from inspiring English sources

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

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

First, the pretence was that Murdoch was afforded a private meeting with the prime minister so she could be briefed on the takeover competition for Times Newspapers.

The pretence was horrendous: the acting, from those two and Genevieve O'Reilly and Claire Keelan as the wives, itchily good; and the class travails as unresolved as a century before.

Even as Kenyan soldiers were fighting battles with heavily armed militants loyal to the Somali Islamists of the Shabab, officials claimed the mall was largely under control.That pretence was exploded on the afternoon of September 23rd when a series of deafening blasts shook the battered shopping centre and a column of black smoke billowed from its roof.

The pretence was that the land to the east was unpopulated, or if it was occupied, then somehow that it didn't matter.Slavs, Poles and Jews were described by the Third Reich in characteristically watery, marshy terms denoting their passivity, their cunning, their fertility, their lack of civilisation.

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.