Sentence examples for pretending in from inspiring English sources

Stop pretending, in other words, that you haven't seen your death.

Pretending in words was too tentative, too vulnerable, too embarrassing to let anyone know.

It's like going back to being a kid again, and we're all pretending in a room.

Most such artists are more like Ossorio than Pollock, educated sophisticates pretending in their art to be wild-eyed lunatics.

Every singer, even Gil Scott-Heron, is pretending in one way or another — putting on drag — and Kiki does the service of bulldozing all the façades of authenticity.

You'll see a bit of acting on my part, too, as in pretending in his gym, for alleged comic purposes, that I couldn't jump rope.

Meanwhile, "every entrepreneur has to pretend in every interaction that everything is going great.

The base-station pretends, in effect, to be an ordinary mobile-phone base-station.

OMM: You wrote Time to Pretend in 2004, when you were still at college in Connecticut?

I wish that I could pretend in my life that I was working.

Real, but fewer than they pretend in hard times, when jittery financial markets will be watching closely.