Sentence examples for pretends he knows from inspiring English sources

But Anderson's fifth ball is delicious, bouncing and seaming away as Karunaratne pretends he knows where it's going.

The trainer, Del, is a vivid and utterly convincing character: mostly irritable, occasionally kind, a wheezing, ageing wheeler-dealer who understands his own desperate circumstances but pretends he knows what he's doing.

I know self-help books probably say that pretending to be somebody's best bud is the best way to "get to yes", but it is downright disconcerting when a stranger pretends he knows you better than your mother.

And did you watch Kony 2012: Part Two? Billed as the answer to the critics who claimed that Invisible Children didn't know what they were on about, it was basically that bit in The Office when David Brent pretends he knows all about Dostoevsky by googling him and then repeating it to people in a pompous way. .

Reading interviews with King from the time when his addictions weren't public knowledge, he feigns normality, pretends he knew what he was doing when he wrote Cujo.

I'm the man pretending he knows what the hell is going on around him when, in fact, he's clueless".

"He often doesn't know or doesn't want to know the facts, and then he will lie or pretend he knows better when he does not," Cuomo said. .

But Lerman was not pretending; he knew absolutely everyone, and what's more, absolutely everyone knew him.

Hired to lead the first wagon train along the Oregon Trail in 1845, this frontiersman's unfamiliarity with the area and persistence in pretending he knew where he was going caused the loss of over 20 lives.

Alan Hansen would have to learn our players' names and pretend he knew about them so he could make insightful comments such as "That lad's looked decent this season".

After the Paris heist, Turbo Paul had also, evidently, conversed with all kinds of unusual suspects, giving intelligence, getting it, pretending he knew more or less than he did.