Sentence examples for pretended was from inspiring English sources

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For larger shipments, he hid his rolls of film under the stele of what he pretended was a family grave.

"I remember playing under a tall, heavy, black, magical sculpture that I pretended was a castle," Isabel says.

So we could go home and try to hold those slippery slivers, which, like everything we pretended was ours, touched us, and vanished?

Residing at Bourges, which his adversaries pretended was the extent of his realm, he in fact retained the fidelity of the greater part of France, including Berry, Poitou, Lyonnais, Auvergne, and Languedoc.

So the effort to cut the trail was conducted furtively, by reluctant South Vietnamese troops, or by bombing, which for years American air-force officials pretended was accurate, or at least effective.On the contrary.

Dressed as the self-righteous 19th-century doctor Lvov, with wire-rimmed spectacles, a pocket watch, grey trousers, a linen jacket and a goatee, I ran up to Ken's dressing room holding a massive empty water cooler that I pretended was Thor's hammer.

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But pretend isn't.

"Extend and pretend is over," he said.

I pretended I was thinking.

They pretended to be strong, as if all was well.

"Pretending is imagined possibility".

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