Sentence examples for pretends to separate from inspiring English sources

The I.O.C. often pretends to separate itself from politics, but there is no affectation here at the I.O.C.'s 112th session.

Visiting Gacy is like spending time with a person who is pretending to like you in order to separate you, violently, if necessary, from something you possess.

But businesses and consumers cannot indefinitely pretend to inhabit separate economies.

The biggest fly in the soup is a gimme to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who is determined to pretend that separating the healthy from the ill won't exacerbate market dysfunction and raise costs for those who need insurance most — which it will, as every healthcare economist could tell him if the Republicans had held a single hearing on their legislation, which they didn't.

Ukip is not as separate from the system as it pretends to be.

In the same section of his essay, Kant wrote that "it would be quite different if a state, by internal rebellion, should fall into two parts, each of which pretended to be a separate state making claim to the whole.

"Sport can't pretend to be a separate world, in which there are some cretins, who do cretinous things and for everyone else the important thing is to take part," insists Carlo Verdelli in today's Gazzetta.

So Asta now pretends to be pretending.

One woman pretends to weep.

Nobody even pretends to know.

Little grandkid picks up sticks and pretends to smoke" (FLSPI).