Sentence examples for pretended from inspiring English sources

A study in the Journal of Sex Research of 281 students from the University of Kansas found that 67% of women had pretended to have orgasms, but so had 28% of men.

Stokes - as Twiggy Palmcock - also pretended to run as a candidate against Jaymes Diaz in Greenway.

Let's face it, the fashion world has never pretended to operate on some superior moral plain.

But for those of you who screamed all summer that you'd be more motivated if you pretended Obama was 10 points down do you feel more motivated?

You had been the cause of my problems, not the solution you pretended to be, and now you were banned from the kitchen.

I had no appetite for anything, but I pretended I was eating the sandwich so the guards don't hurt me.

At the very least Johnson should not have pretended that he planned to do the opposite of what he has actually done.

[Bevan's "vermin" remark - one of the most famous jibes in politics - was adroitly turned against the Attlee government by Tory speakers, who pretended it insulted their voters rather than policy makers.

And for three decades the IRA and Sinn Féin pretended to the family that they had nothing to do with her murder and disappearance.

Then I took a single bullet, pretended to insert it into the cylinder, and pointed the gun at my friends.

Adamu and Temarii were caught out in a sting by Sunday Times investigators who pretended to represent a company seeking to buy votes for the USA's World Cup bid.