Sentence examples for pretends for from inspiring English sources
This novel's gay hero pretends, for a change, to be straight.
"An actor pretends for a living, tells lies for a living.
When we meet on set, Bleakley manages to affect more professional good cheer about the criticism than Chiles, but neither pretends for a second to be indifferent.
She pretends, for an evening, to live in a world where only men are with child ("Your husband is home trying not to pee when he laughs"), to drink ale out of the skull of a goblin, and to eat sushi made from the meat of a monster that she has butchered herself.
No one pretends for a minute that our economy is back at full capacity.
She agrees, but only if she can prerecord and have her voice auto-tuned, and, to be fair, everyone at the party seems to be pretty impressed and at least pretends for the camera that they hadn't even realised she was miming.
Not for pretend — for real life.
No more pretending for him!
"They just pretended for the show," she said.
You cannot be in pretend for people to like you.
"As an actor I pretend for a living.
