Sentence examples for pretended for from inspiring English sources

"They just pretended for the show," she said.

(It was W.H. Auden, who only pretended for a while to be American).

I pretended for a time to be asleep, and he pretended to think I was.

She pretended for a while that she could afford to buy the house with its garden and huge pear tree herself.

We pretended for a bit that we also cared about the opposition, although most of us were more interested in Liverpool's progress in the English Premier League.

At the end, Brown pretended, for the first time flashing that death-grin, that it had "been a great opportunity to exchange ideas".

No more pretending for him!

"As an actor I pretend for a living.

That's a lot of pretending for one town.

"I don't pretend for a minute to understand Cape Breton," he said.

This novel's gay hero pretends, for a change, to be straight.