Sentence examples for serious pretender from inspiring English sources
Mr. Kato, meanwhile, was a serious pretender for leadership of the Liberal Democratic Party as recently as two years ago.
Ivanovic was written off as more of a stylish pretender than a serious contender, but she has continued to inch her way back up the rankings.
Killed off at the end of The Twelve Chairs, Bender was resurrected in a sequel, Zolotoy telyonok (1931; The Little Golden Calf), an equally humorous but more serious and trenchant satire centring upon pretenders who claim to be the son of a dead Soviet hero.
Mr. Young chose another scrappy veteran with a serious soft spot to share the bill on this tour: Chrissie Hynde led the Pretenders through an easygoing set of favorites, from "Brass in Pocket" to "Night in My Veins".
I returned the pretender.
Lombard herself is "the great pretender," whose characters "flourish in that most hilarious but difficult of dramatic forms perfected by Wilde -- the trivial comedy for serious people".
Obama is a great pretender.
He was the great pretender".
A petty ignorant pretender to politicks.
