Sentence examples for the pretense of borrowing from inspiring English sources

— Karl Eugene Chamberlain went to his neighbor's apartment that night in Dallas under the pretense of borrowing sugar.

Suspicious that Mike is spending the night with Edie, Susan enters Edie's home uninvited with the pretense of borrowing sugar.

Suddenly there was no pretense of hiding the pretense of photography.

There was not even the pretense of stealth.

The pretense of no manipulation is completely manipulative.

It's self-promotion under the pretense of hiding.

The pretense of a logic, the fantasy of a solution.

I guess.... ..... Then she paused, her face sort of falling, the pretense of effort dropping away.

This superficiality is a problem only because of the pretense of being about great art.

The Census Bureau's global population clock gives the pretense of greater precision.

Under the pretense of closeness, they expanded the distance between us.