Sentence examples for pretended to be able from inspiring English sources

She pretended to be able to read and write, surviving by guessing words and inventing connections between them and sometimes just remaining mute, as she wrote in "Reversals: A Personal Account of Victory Over Dyslexia," (Houghton Mifflin, 1979).

They stuck resolutely to sticky keys and small screens, and at best some of them had styluses that pretended to be able to recognize handwriting.

The emperor then paraded around the town naked and everyone pretended to be able to see the suit until a child cried out that the man was naked. .

For so long I have pretended to be able to solve a Rubik's Cube when in reality, all I was doing was looking for a specific set of patterns and then executing a memorized sequence of moves in order to make the cube whole again.

"It would just be dishonest to pretend to be able to give you a number".

No scenario writer would pretend to be able to forecast specific events such as those of September 11th.

And performers routinely ask composers to provide computer playback along with a score; conductors no longer even pretend to be able to imagine a score silently.

A reputable expert will tell you that what this lab did is an ethical violation of the highest order; to even pretend to be able to draw such conclusions on unreliable evidence is the real crime".

I can't pretend to be able to explain Wilson's deep and abiding connection with younger children, particularly girls, and it's slightly baffling to hear that some send her photographs of themselves dressed up as "Jacqueline Wilson".

Three-quarters of this rise, he says, is due to cost inflation, and only about a quarter to the ageing of America's population.Mr McCain does not pretend to be able to solve this problem, but he offers a number of mechanisms that will help.

I don't pretend to be able to fathom the consumer mind, so I'll defer predicting the results of Redmond's little content foraging mission for now.