Sentence examples for pretense for from inspiring English sources
To skeptics, the parity mantra sounded like a flimsy pretense for slashing player salaries.
("I'm writing this to warn you!" becomes the pretense for much self-regard).
This line of thinking became a "pretense for paternalist and imperialist ambitions," Gregory says.
It has been hard shouldering all that pretense for so long.
The math task, however, was just a pretense for the real experiment, which concerned cheating.
Some say the pay phones are merely a pretense for advertisements.
Nor is it funny that four young men stand accused of entering federal property under false pretenses for the purpose of committing a felony and could do serious jail time.
The indictment describes how several defendants in 2014 "traveled to the United States under false pretenses for the purpose of collecting intelligence to inform the organization's operations," making stops in California, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, Illinois, Michigan, Louisiana, Texas, New York and Georgia.
He sued her on the grounds of false pretenses, for not telling him about the plastic surgery and duping him into thinking she was beautiful, which brings up some interesting questions.
It is also claimed that he "wrongfully collect[ed] or attempt[ed] to collect information by clandestine means or while acting under false pretenses, for the purpose of conveying such information to an enemy of the United States, or to one of the co-belligerents of the enemy".
The community went on to recover as the understated Hamptons village without the beach, the pretense and, for a while at least, the sticker shock.
