Sentence examples for pretend something from inspiring English sources

"You can't pretend something isn't happening," said Jennifer Sizemore, editor in chief of msnbc.com.

"The fact that Labour is spending its time trying to pretend something different shows it is just trying to find excuses to undermine and thwart the referendum result.

"If aliens ever landed here, the one thing they really wouldn't understand is why thousands of people get in this dark room and pretend something is real when it's not in order to make sense of the world.

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

You don't have to pretend something is a person to treat it justly.

Now, I'm as tired of steampunk as the next guy (unless the next guy works at BoingBoing), but that doesn't mean I'm going to pretend something like this Rotary Mechanical concept isn't cool.

Inquiries are mostly the establishment's way of managing dissent and pretending something is being done.

That was when I pretended something was wrong with the phone and hung up.

People kept telling me that it wasn't enough, to the point where I didn't know that pretending something and believing it is all that it is.

(Although, as this interesting article about the show's marketing suggests, pretending something is unobtainable when it isn't can confuse would-be ticket buyers).

Françoise noted, "It is important to give kids a path to control their emotions, rather than pretending something will never happen".