Sentence examples for pretends has from inspiring English sources

He took a liking to the criminals with whom he found himself captive, and after his release he began conducting a series of interviews with Chinese outcasts and outlaws — the sort of poor, marginal, tradition-bound folk that Maoist doctrine pretends has been eradicated by Communism.

The Divine Comedy is a first-person poem about a man who suffers a crisis ("I found myself in a dark wood, for the straight way was lost"), which he resolves by undertaking an imaginary journey that he pretends has been made possible by the soul of a dead woman he loved.

He took a liking to the criminals with whom he found himself captive, and after his release he began conducting a series of interviews with Chinese outcasts and outlaws the sort of poor, marginal, tradition-bound folk that Maoist doctrine pretends has been eradicated by Communism.

Pretending has always been part of me".

"No pretending" has become the company's mantra.

That division, never so neat as the movies pretended, has been increasingly blurred, to happy effect.

Change resistance produces a nightmare, which change denial means we'll pretend has been eternal.

Moreover, pretending has a high cost.

His steps became tentative, and Maico understood that the pretending had begun.

We can't just pretend that hasn't happened".

Don't try to make her pretend she has.