Sentence examples for some pretense from inspiring English sources
I needed some pretense of small talk.
Shouldn't you make some pretense of civility toward your fellow writers?
Perhaps the letter would have been safe among his possessions in Rhode Island, but the next day he took it to his lab, lingering on some pretense at the end of the session, waiting to be alone.
Because it was Thanksgiving and some pretense of home-food tradition had to be followed, my mother would bake an apple crisp with the sour misshapen apples from our ancient trees, remnants from the farmers who cultivated the land for centuries before we arrived.
PLANETALL www.planetall.com While most on-line calendars at least make some pretense of wanting you to read their privacy statements, Amazon.com's PlanetAll simply asks you to click an "agree" privacy button with virtually no explanation of what you're agreeing to.
On some pretense, such as a peacekeeping mission, thousands of troops would gather on the border.
If you were trapped by outdated rules of gender, genre, race, culture, class, cliché or some musical pretense, you could see Bowie stride through the same wall and suddenly feel a little safer to be free.
A few songs in, the masks came off, and so did some of the pretense.
"I flatly reject the notion that there is no such thing as impartial, objective journalism — that it's some kind of pretense or charade, and we should just give it up, come clean and lay out our biases," he said.
The same holds true of the account in Everett 2005, which says that both authors and literary critics engage in some sort of "pretense".
The hoarding of information under some special legal pretense, even from one's fellow government officials, becomes an antiquated talent in a truly open data government.
