Sentence examples for pretenses on from inspiring English sources

Like Krylova, investigators say she traveled to the U.S. under false pretenses on a fact-finding mission.

It represents his no-pretense, on-the-go nature.

"Oddly oblique," he concludes, "The Hard Life reads as... a rather mild attack on the pretenses of Catholicism and an already vanishing social order".

The ultimate indignity of a dictatorship, as so many of the protesters in the Arab Spring said, is that of having to listen to a lie with a straight face, with no pretense, on either side, that one is being lied to.

The proposal came without any pretense on her part of servility or of discretion in how she would portray him.

If the good folks of Switzerland get lucky, they might get to see a new star arising from the pretense on which they were persuaded to buy their tickets.

"Don't be fooled by the pretense on the part of both the government and the mainstream media that this was an unprovoked attack, an attack against freedom and democracy," he booms.

I dropped all pretense on the last day and ate my food untainted, instead simply dumping spoonfuls of CBD powder directly onto my tongue for each meal.

Just how well any of this plays in coal country is an open question, but the coal friendly pretense on both sides has never really stood up to scrutiny.

Later, Dog said: "Hip-hop is bringing the races together, but on false pretenses to make money.

I draw a rough practical line where folks are actually dragged out of the house and down to the bar on false pretenses, so I would not endorse this tactic beyond what can be swiftly gleaned online.