Sentence examples for pretended in from inspiring English sources

He pretended in an interview with international news outlets that the Libyan people still loved him and are prepared to die to protect his regime.

She has also, largely through intermediaries (I call them spokesfriends, or spokescousins) pretended, in an amazing contortion, to have practised thrift.

When the Daily Telegraph's journalists pretended in 2011 to be the constituents of Lib-Dem MPs, the paper cited prior knowledge of their statements and yet were still judged by the PCC to be guilty of engaging in a fishing expedition.

In the article Connolly is quoted as saying, "Mr. Fimian's views on social issues are relevant because he has pretended in this campaign to be a moderate in the mold of Tom Davis.

Stop pretending, in other words, that you haven't seen your death.

Meanwhile, "every entrepreneur has to pretend in every interaction that everything is going great.

The base-station pretends, in effect, to be an ordinary mobile-phone base-station.

OMM: You wrote Time to Pretend in 2004, when you were still at college in Connecticut?

Pretending in words was too tentative, too vulnerable, too embarrassing to let anyone know.

I wish that I could pretend in my life that I was working.

Real, but fewer than they pretend in hard times, when jittery financial markets will be watching closely.