Sentence examples for pretends to assert from inspiring English sources
"If the capacity of knowing, be the natural impression contended for, all the truths a man ever comes to know, will, by this account, be every one of them, innate; and this great point will amount to no more, but only an improper way of speaking; which whilst it pretends to assert the contrary, says nothing different from those, who deny innate principles.
The instrumentalist says that in an utterance of "the number of apples is two", the speaker is merely pretending to assert something; nothing is really asserted.
Or perhaps not: perhaps Romeo isn't pretending to say or assert anything at all in speaking as he does.
So Asta now pretends to be pretending.
One woman pretends to weep.
Nobody even pretends to know.
Smirnova responds with serenely individual phrasing, deliberate épaulement – she does not pretend to bonelessness, but rather, asserts the transcendent harmony of her limbs – and a cool, quiet smile.
Some Justices like to assert, or pretend, that the Constitution has a single meaning, and that each case thus has only one correct resolution.
Michael tries to assert his power over Stanley, by pretending to fire him, but that only makes matters worse.
"In this police state," he asserts, "I've managed to gain freedom of thought by pretending to be dead.
A chronic stretcher of truth, George impersonated a marine biologist, asserted himself as the head of the Aryan Nation, and often pretended to be an architect.
