Sentence examples for pretends to wipe from inspiring English sources

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He pretends to wipe his forehead.

In that video, Doan pretends to wipe a stranger's face with a cloth before seeming to apologize and back away, according to news reports.

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So he stood up again, pretended to wipe his eyes, and apologised again.

He would take out his silk handkerchief, pretend to wipe his backside, and then toss it at the crowd.

Or when Terry pretended to wipe his mouth on his sleeve so the referee could not see him giving Carlos Tevez a mouthful of abuse.

But I think my favourite Murphy moment is the little gesture he makes right at the end, pretending to wipe champagne from his mouth.

Mrs. McCaskill also said that in brief remarks, Mrs. Clinton voiced her full commitment to Mr. Obama's campaign — in recounting this, Mrs. McCaskill feigned relief by pretending to wipe sweat from her forehead.

As I walked around the show with her, she paused in front of an old poster for the original exhibition and, pretending to wipe it with her sleeve, said, "We are only polishing their stars, the people from this time").

As the cameraman focused his lens on the Olympic silver medallist, Smith pretended to wipe his brow, relieved that he would be leaving Glasgow with an individual medal.

We quickly ran to another section of the restaurant to pretend to wipe down tables as if nothing had happened to the bent-nosed moose.

She then mocked Curry's famously empathetic emotional style, demanding that host Marc Lamont Hill tell her he liked coffee and responding, "Do you reeeaaaaaally like coffee?" She also pretended to wipe tears from her eyes.

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