Sentence examples for pretends to command from inspiring English sources

I've definitely heard that negative voice that pretends to command reality.

He declared it was his opinion they ought to fight, thereby to hinder the enemy from passing the gates of Peloponnesus, but nevertheless he would submit to the judgment of Aratus, not only as the elder and more experienced captain, but as he was general of the Achaeans, whose forces he would not pretend to command, but was only come thither to assist them.

This basically means we get hours of footage of him wearing stupid outfits, pretending to command a Viking army ("Let's go and have a tear up with the Normandy mob, let's have it) and, while surveying the UK atop Dover Castle, declaring, "I own the lot".

What better way to command public attention than to pretend to run for the presidency?

His wife implores him to fill a plate with some actual dinner, a command he pretends to not understand.

Voters in both camps are suitably cowed by the view that the Elysée can no longer pretend to be the command centre of the French economy.

Whatever else it accomplishes, the sassy high school comedy "Easy A" commands attention for the irresistible presence of Emma Stone, playing a good girl who pretends to be bad.

So Asta now pretends to be pretending.

One woman pretends to weep.

Nobody even pretends to know.

The course does not pretend to give you complete command of the language, but it is a way in, an ice-breaker – and it is superior to any phrase book.