Sentence examples for pretends to throw from inspiring English sources

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It's like a cruel trick a dog trainer plays when he pretends to throw a ball, sending the dog running after nothing.

As they leave the house, so estranged they can barely look at each other, their daughter tells them to have a good date, then pretends to throw up at the sappiness of the idea.

Matsui has orange hair, likes to sprint around the field barefoot and has an odd postpractice routine in which he jumps, runs and pretends to throw on the outfield grass.

Mme Verdurin ends up, in her third (at least) marriage, as the Princesse de Guermantes, at the top of the tree, and this, I think, is something that the novel secretly celebrates as it pretends to throw up its hands.

Poisoned, Ryan Quinn (who plays five other supporting roles distinctively) takes over the open-air stage with bravado, pretends to throw up in the laps of audience members (including two little girls, who seemed quite amused) and quotes from "The Wizard of Oz" and "Citizen Kane" before the innkeeper finally expires.

We first meet Ben and Helen Armstead as they head out for what they tell their 12-year-old daughter is a "date night". As they leave the house, so estranged they can barely look at each other, their daughter tells them to have a good date, then pretends to throw up at the sappiness of the idea.

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He wound up and pretended to throw a left hook.

But when Goodes or Jetta pretend to throw a spear?

Even pretending to throw a ball has the same effect as actually throwing it.

After frightening the fellow by pretending to throw it, we calmed him with a wink.

My husband took one look at them and pretended to throw up.

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