Sentence examples for pretending of from inspiring English sources

"I loved the feeling of pretending, of being somewhere else.

It's bad enough that both parties have taken to coming and addressing us at our weekly meeting – pretending, of course, that it's a great privilege to do so.

"To be pointed at — to be noticed & commented upon — to be suspected of literary airs — to be shunned, as literary women are, by the more unpretending of my own sex: & abhorred, as literary women are, by the more pretending of the other!

But it's an even bigger shock for somebody to realize that Europe does nothing to avert this painful for those children, women and man's situation rather than taking the closed doors decisions pretending of alleviating the misery of these people, but in reality, European leaders are doing quite the opposite.

Inquire first, whether species have a real and permanent existence in nature; or whether they are capable, as some naturalists pretend, of being indefinitely modified in the course of a long series of generations (1832).

Specifically, we focused on the processes of pretending to know (a type of deception) and false recognition, in both of which people respond "I know" to novel events.

Now he was free of the work of pretending to himself that he didn't know.

Or of someone pretending to spread a message of love.

That's a lot of pretending for one town.

Sixty daily minutes of pretending to be Thomas puffing around the track?

Lisa Simpson, in "The Simpsons" "This curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people".