Sentence examples for that he pretends from inspiring English sources

Jack writes autobiographical fiction that he pretends is entirely the product of his imagination.

Everybody cannot be punished like that," he adds before becoming so concerned for Zack's safety that he pretends to be his friend.

The gang finds out that Jack is not the "out and proud" poster child that he pretends to be, but, in fact, has been telling his mother that Grace was his ex-girlfriend.

Not that he pretends to have uncovered anything unknown to the authorities he cites, notably the historian J. G. A. Pocock, whose studies of civic republicanism reveal how early modern philosophers drew on a current of thought about the nature of citizenship that goes back to ancient Greece and Rome.

The Divine Comedy is a first-person poem about a man who suffers a crisis ("I found myself in a dark wood, for the straight way was lost"), which he resolves by undertaking an imaginary journey that he pretends has been made possible by the soul of a dead woman he loved.

The desperate protagonist of "Time Out" loses the high-paying job on which his self-esteem depends and convinces his family he has landed even better work, while drifting around in his car and living on money borrowed from friends that he pretends to invest.

It turns out that he, pretending to be Uberto of Corinth, is Anna's secret lover.

Arenas said after the game that he pretended to have a knee injury to give Nick Young a chance to start.

He furthered that deception, prosecutors said, by forging documents and using a "virtual office" with a phone number that he pretended belonged to the financial institutions that he said had custody of the nonexistent securities.

Mr. Nemazee also set up what prosecutors called a "virtual office" with a phone number that he pretended belonged to the financial institutions that he said had custody of the nonexistent securities.

His style during the discussions was "ironic" in the original sense of eironeia, meaning that he pretended to be ignorant to prompt his interlocutors to open up.His life, above all, was dedicated to the love of wisdom (philosophy).