Sentence examples for pretends with from inspiring English sources

Great entertainment tends to wear the mask of charm; it pretends, with its clear and present delights, to be simpler than it is.

Downton Abbey, likewise, pretends with the odd subplot to have something to say about haves and have-nots, but is in fact telling a very photogenic, undemanding story about wealth.

Banderas himself seems lost, except for a brief episode in which he pretends, with lovely tact, to be a gay fussbudget looking for a missing floppy disk — an homage, perhaps, to the free-spirited movies he once made back in Madrid, with Pedro Almodóvar.

There would be a seamstress pretending with an empty needle without a thread, just pretending.

CROTON-ON-HUDSON Croton Free Library "Lets Pretend with Nora," songs, movement, music and stories.

"What do they pretend with this new language they've invented for human rights?" Carlotto asks.

In the streets and back lots, Kostya pretended with his friends that they were the Red Army on the attack.

"She insisted on it, saying she was not a good enough actress to pretend with apple juice," he said.

Charles J. Hynes, Brooklyn's current and perhaps future district attorney, sat down to talk politics last week with a journalist who agreed to play pretend with him.

"We made a point of always saying to Sam not that we were building a magic cabinet, but that we would pretend with him," Lucie tells me.

Don't get me wrong, imaginative play is great - and I recall doing a lot of pretending with my own Barbie dolls.