Sentence examples for pretend at from inspiring English sources

If you don't pretend at vanity, the men feel dissatisfied.

If we're going to pretend, at least let us pretend well.

This is especially noticeable in the movies where every actor likes to pretend at one time or another that he is a newspaperman.

And it is hard to pretend, at the end of this haunting compilation, her death unsolved, her warnings unheeded, that words alone are enough.

When I ask him why Indians feel the need to pretend at worldliness, he replies, "If you don't pretend you don't get anywhere in India.

The Clinton impeachment, the first of an American President since the Civil War, was, of course, all about sex, despite various attempts, by Hastert among others, to pretend at the time that it was actually about perjury.

View here "You spend every day pretending at the most antisocial hours," she says.

I'm pretending at work and everyone is polite to me because they have to be.

The definition is further confused by pretending at prizegivings that the map is still pink.

After picking her up, the boys' father tricks her by driving to a rundown shack which he pretends at first is the family home.

Núñez later reported that he had pretended at times to be a healer in order to receive better treatment and more food from the Indians.