Sentence examples for really pretend from inspiring English sources

The Taxidermist's Daughter does not really pretend to be a historical novel.

Working on both sides of a divide that Koudelka says "mutilates the Holy Land," he doesn't really pretend to balance.

But I am a woman, I can't really pretend otherwise, not being a 1920s Berlin caberet act.

But in the end, Mr. Zoffinger could not really pretend to be happy about the resolution of the dispute.

New Yorkers can't really pretend to be anything but themselves, though, and Antibalas is Brooklyn to the core.

Daddy got scolded, not verbally, but facially, so let's pretend again, and do the Christmas grab bag, but do it right this time and really pretend I'm Santa".

And I've never really pretended to be anything that I'm not.

Just looking at these two bodies together — this really old, disintegrated body next to this huge lump of muscle — you can imagine that Masoud really pretends to be like Juma, but he isn't.

You never quite knew, in a given scene, whether he was really pretending to be Hanson or the person Hanson was pretending to be, and his face, a mask of cunning and reserve, never entirely gave the game away.

We know that fat shaming only makes us fatter, if you're really pretending to be concerned about the issue.

It's not really pretending when somebody is really looking at you with outrage and moral contempt and telling you that you've behaved badly.