Sentence examples for pretended on from inspiring English sources

So Rosset began an exhausting round of negotiations with Frieda, and with Alfred Knopf, an irascible publishing titan who considered Rosset a peon and who pretended, on no legal grounds whatever, that his company owned the rights to any edition that the courts might allow.

"Did they know about his drug use?" Do they, he goes on, know he pretended on social media to be a gang member.

"I won't play pretend on television while science is being murdered.

He said, "My brother and sister and I sat on that bench and listened to 'Let's Pretend' on the radio.

We can't pretend on the other hand that we're not living in an evolving landscape about what television is.

She delivers a brutal takedown of corporations that, in her view, pretend on their sunny Web sites to treat workers well but in practice use labor contractors that often cheat them.

German billionaire Otto Beisheim pretends on the phone with a FORBES reporter to be his housekeeper.

Because Chris knew (and illustrated in public briefing) what you seem to be pretending on the stump -- indecently I might add -- was hidden from his understanding.

"It's where I pretended to be on the radio".

Only the Greens even pretended to stand on a common manifesto this time round.

He promptly grabbed the offending device and pretended to stamp on it.