Sentence examples for pretended as from inspiring English sources

The electronic duo Daft Punk stood atop a crystal, before seemingly vacant podiums, and pretended, as far as I could tell, to play synthesizers; later, a clump of backup dancers enacted something like a mosh pit while James Hetfield, of Metallica, sang into a dead microphone.

I pretended as long as I could.

Wells injured his groin slightly on Saturday when he climbed the dugout steps to join the bench-clearing brawl in Game 3. Asked about that on Tuesday, Wells pretended as if he knew nothing of the incident.

If the House of Windsor had reservations about hiring the same talent as the king who had abdicated in favor of his punctilious American mistress, they pretended (as they did with Cecil Beaton) that the association didn't exist, so as not to cost them a petal of pride.

Though attractive and perky, she never pretended, as a singer, to be anything other than the good Liverpudlian Catholic girl she was, giving the impression, unusually for the 60s music scene, that she was more likely after a gig to opt for cocoa with her mum than a beer with a Beatle.

The caregiver pretended as if the toy bit her own finger, shouting "Ow!" as if in pain.

Had she been pretending, as long as John had known her, to be a prude?

"The job is to pretend as convincingly as you can," he said.

Kanzi, the famous bonobo, liked to pretend as well.

But I also think I'd be a better mom if I stopped pretending, and making friends on Facebook feel like they have to pretend as well".

I was pretending as well, in that I did not have the slightest idea what an audience would want to watch.