Sentence examples for pretend situation from inspiring English sources

For instance, a mother (an agent) pretends that a banana (an anchor) is a telephone (an imaginary or a pretend situation) in playing with children.

So, cooks: Say "Om,"and pretend the situation is reversed.

But Mr. Yalew said the conversion was only "pretend," a situation that often was plain to Christians, too.

"I cannot pretend the situation is not grim," commented Dr David Parker, director of science, technology and exploration at the UK Space Agency UKSAA).

WHEN the Kursk, a Russian submarine, sank in 2000, Vladimir Putin's government at first pretended the situation was not as awful as it seemed.

As for tackling ISIS inside Syria, Obama didn't pretend that the situation there is anything other than horribly messy.

"One exercise I was told about recently is that when you feel overwhelmed by a situation, pretend to be someone else, and then deal with it through how you imagine they would".

When you feel full of love for the people involved in the given situation, pretend they are your own children (or house pets or projects - visualize whatever you really love).

This measure doesn't even pretend to create situations in which large numbers of academically struggling students will succeed, let alone all or even most of them.

"I don't think you hide from the situation and pretend something's not happening.

"There was no shouting match, I didn't try and pretend I had the situation under control," Ben recalls.