Sentence examples for pretend of from inspiring English sources

Inquire first, whether species have a real and permanent existence in nature; or whether they are capable, as some naturalists pretend, of being indefinitely modified in the course of a long series of generations (1832).

Lyell, alluding to Lamarck, put the problem in the opening page of his second volume very well as he invited his reader to: Inquire first, whether species have a real and permanent existence in nature; or whether they are capable, as some naturalists pretend, of being indefinitely modified in the course of a long series of generations (1832).

Objections to torture aren't the exclusive terrain, as Bill Kristol likes to pretend, of "President Obama" and his "leftist lawyers" looking back on a "bright, sunny safe day in April" with "preening self-righteousness" and forgetting how "dark and painful" that chapter in our history was.

Add the transmitted mixed signal to the output variables y 1 (or y 2, y 3) to be the pretend of the chaos signal ( overset{s}(t) ), which will be transmitted to the receiver end.

"I loved the feeling of pretending, of being somewhere else.

Sarkozy doesn't pretend to radiate anything of the kind.

Pretend to be Superman, of course!

Pretend to be part of a tragic romance.

Follow them and pretend to take pictures of them.

Specifically, we focused on the processes of pretending to know (a type of deception) and false recognition, in both of which people respond "I know" to novel events.

The UK government does not have to pretend any of these questions are easy.