Sentence examples for the pretender from inspiring English sources

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the pretender

noun

A person who professes beliefs and opinions that they do not hold.

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I returned the pretender.

These days the pretender is China.

But then the pretender staged a birthday.

"I'm like Dmitry the Pretender - nothing but a sham".

Not least Henson v O'Driscoll, the pretender and the prince.

A second Roman army under Quintus Caecilius Metellus defeated the pretender in 148.

Augustus put pressure on Phraates IV through the pretender Tiridates and even tried military intervention.

The pretender entered Moscow in triumph, was crowned, and married Maryna Mniszchówna.

In 1497 the pretender Perkin Warbeck was proclaimed king when he anchored in St. Ives harbour.

First to strike was the pretender to the throne, the upstart Preserve.

Alas, the story ends with the pretender confined in an asylum.

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