Sentence examples for pretending to work from inspiring English sources

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Old Gaffer Gamgee stopped even pretending to work in his garden.

That money-grubber, just sitting there, letting his mind wander, not even pretending to work.

You can do it via laptop or smartphone, while lying in bed, waiting for a bus or pretending to work.

We learn about the tattoo designs for politicals, addicts, rapists, murderers; we learn of tufta, the art of pretending to work, and of mastyrka, the art of malingering.

Mr Darduna told the BBC he was conned into selling the piece by a local man who pretending to work for Banksy.

That chat and e-mail checking — could this be the type of person who is going to sit on Facebook while pretending to work?

I spent a few days pacing, pretending to work, trying not to fight with Solomon and hoping positive vibes were enough to save the embryo.

No, he sucked it up, took it like a man, and spent the day hiding in his office and pretending to work.

In fields like finance and consulting, some workers may only be pretending to work 80-hour weeks, a recent study suggests.

Its many millions of fans include Barack Obama who confessed to watching it in the Oval Office while pretending to work.

He contrived stagy scenes of laborers, who posed holding saws and hammers or stood beside ladders, pretending to work or do who knows what.

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