Sentence examples for that pretended from inspiring English sources

And she said good morning, in a voice that pretended not to notice his.

Any e-mail that pretended to be from that organization but was not from those designated I.P. numbers would be suspect.

But they have already made significant improvements in a once-bankrupt system that pretended to educate teachers without ever really doing the job.

Logan Pearsall Smith, the great Quaker aphorist, once declared, "If we treat people too long with that pretended liking called politeness, we shall find it hard not to like them in the end".

The first predicts the demise of the "universal" bank, that behemoth that pretended to meet all your conceivable needs but in fact led to lousy service and ridiculous risk-taking (forgive the hyperbole: I write as an aggrieved depositor and shareholder of the Royal Bank of Scotland).

One was the par bonds for those banks that pretended or needed to pretend that the debt was worth 100 cents on the dollar, and the others were the market investors who got the discount bonds.

A phrase that pretends Christmas is something you can buy.

You always do that — pretend you're something you're not and never have been.

But all that pretending to be small elsewhere on the album?

She is selling something that pretends to be our life, but isn't.

That's absolutely shocking for a group that pretends to represent consumers".