Sentence examples for pretending for from inspiring English sources

No more pretending for him!

That's a lot of pretending for one town.

"Actors are pretending for you," he says, "but they're not lying.

It's not like he's pretending for reporters, and then behind closed doors, he's saying something totally different.

And after pretending for years that she does not exist, in July the official press published a commentary by her.

"Cartoonists are nerds," he says, hunching awkwardly over his plate, pretending for a moment that his knife is a pen.

"They just pretended for the show," she said.

"As an actor I pretend for a living.

"I don't pretend for a minute to understand Cape Breton," he said.

(It was W.H. Auden, who only pretended for a while to be American).

This novel's gay hero pretends, for a change, to be straight.