Sentence examples for pretended to answer from inspiring English sources

To make the charade more believable, while I was speaking to this woman, my secretary picked up the phone and pretended to answer a call using the tabloid's name, like she was the receptionist.

In what the local press dubbed "the Chinese professor caper," Soong was played by a Chinese-American who had lived in the United States for over thirty years, and pretended to answer questions in Chinese while Benchley "translated".

But The Newsroom is only pretending to answer it.

But the film delves past regional concerns into larger philosophical questions that it does not pretend to answer.

It was classic Cameron to pretend to answer the question and fail to, but the audience understood he was ducking".

GEORGE PACKER: I'm so far from being an economist that I won't even pretend to answer.

On screen he avoids preachiness because his films don't pretend to answer tough moral questions; they simply insist the questions are worth asking.

During a recent rehearsal at the Metropolitan Opera for Mozart's "Nozze di Figaro" the marvelous Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel exuded charisma, pretending to answer his cellphone mid-aria.

He knew to expect the question at banquets or community functions or whenever he spoke to reporters, so he would excuse himself and pretend to answer his phone and say: "Hello?

Jerry Yang, the internet company's boss and co-founder, and his top lieutenants read a prepared statement of banalities and clichés in a robotic monotone, then recycle them when pretending to answer questions from Wall Street analysts—until the tedium overwhelms all concerned.

(Pro-tip: if you're next in line and product-less, pretend to answer an important phone call, step out of line, and just jump right back to the end 30 seconds later).