Sentence examples for put on an act like from inspiring English sources

If I had to put on an act like that just to get dinner, I would be too exhausted to eat.

If another pianist had put on an act like this, the viewers would have laughed at best, scoffed at worst.

Perhaps he's just putting on  an act, like P.T. Barnum — a "marketer, con, snake-oil salesman who knows better, knows how to get the rubes into the tent".

Whenever I found myself putting on an act for my therapist, I was just like, Why am I even here then?So I didn't bullshit either of us.

"I don't feel like I'm putting on an act or anything like that.

Was he putting on an act?

"He was putting on an act.

They assumed he was putting on an act.

We thought that they were just putting on an act.

"She's really putting on an act.

If you put on an act to get a boy to like you, he might want to date you, but then you'll have to pretend to be that imaginary girl the entire time you're together.