Sentence examples for pretext for me from inspiring English sources

"My Paris gallery was just the pretext for me to go out and find paintings.

Sadly none of his current spots are nearly as entertaining as "cut that meat!" But they do provide a suitable pretext for me to ask: what was your all-time favourite athlete endorsement?

One is that there is no other subject in which malicious people can so readily find pretexts for vilifying me; and the other is that I believe only sovereigns, or those authorized by them, have the right to concern themselves with regulating the morals of other people" (AT V 86 7/CSMK 326).

"You say, 'Do you want to go the movies with me Friday night?' Movies are a pretext for social interaction.

"The hacking was a pretext for us to be attacked," bin Abdulrahman, the Qatari foreign minister, told me.

The taboo was a pretext for extortion.

It was the pretext for courtship.

Could there be a better pretext for a disaster movie?

This later became a pretext for defending "Russia's citizens".

Any provocation could easily become a pretext for renewed conflict.

"The books are not a pretext for scandal; the scandal was the pretext for the books," he said.