Sentence examples for pretending to understand from inspiring English sources

However, he loves reading books while I work, sitting in on meetings and taking notes, or pretending to understand (and sometimes actually understanding!) what the adults are discussing.

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) — In an impressive white-knuckle performance on live television today, members of Congress spent several hours in a hearing room pretending to understand the Internet.

First they lose the subjects they've only been pretending to understand — chaos theory, monetary policy, Don Delillo — and pretty soon their conversation is reduced to the core stories of self-heroism.

By Andy Borowitz October 24, 2013 WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) — In an impressive white-knuckle performance on live television today, members of Congress spent several hours in a hearing room pretending to understand the Internet.

I'd bet good money that, right now, people up and down the country are pretending to understand: Do you know what's on the front page if you Google Tom Stoppard?

I don't know how many more hours I can sit in silence, pretending to understand the difference between phonemes, phones, and allophones or sounding out the IPA, which is full of letters that couldn't possibly sound like anything.

Nobody even pretended to understand.

Beckmann did not pretend to understand abstraction.

I could not pretend to understand anything.

Even most of their spouses do not pretend to understand.

(I will not pretend to understand any beef between Nigeria and Ghana).