Sentence examples for pretending something from inspiring English sources

Inquiries are mostly the establishment's way of managing dissent and pretending something is being done.

People kept telling me that it wasn't enough, to the point where I didn't know that pretending something and believing it is all that it is.

(Although, as this interesting article about the show's marketing suggests, pretending something is unobtainable when it isn't can confuse would-be ticket buyers).

It seemed as though their irrelevance was a foregone conclusion, and we were just practicing this quaint exercise of pretending something mattered when of course everyone knew it didn't".

Françoise noted, "It is important to give kids a path to control their emotions, rather than pretending something will never happen".

Distract their attention by saying or pretending something strange is behind them, when they turn back try to escape from them soon.

"I don't think you hide from the situation and pretend something's not happening.

That was when I pretended something was wrong with the phone and hung up.

"You can't pretend something isn't happening," said Jennifer Sizemore, editor in chief of msnbc.com.

"The fact that Labour is spending its time trying to pretend something different shows it is just trying to find excuses to undermine and thwart the referendum result.

You don't have to pretend something is a person to treat it justly.