Sentence examples for thin pretext from inspiring English sources
Whatever African heritage they might have in common, it seems a thin pretext for their sharing a program.
When the thin pretext of egalitarianism is scraped away the White House proposal is nothing more than a thinly veiled effort to raise taxes.
Sony/Columbia, seizing on the thin pretext of the 50th anniversary of Miles signing to the label, has put the original tracks out again - with the trumpeter's essay on the boxer Jack Johnson, new photos and exhaustive liner notes.
Tracking down a missing person seems merely a thin pretext — like a kid's birthday party or a midnight grease infusion at Pink's — for the dumb, grudging pleasure of each other's company.
Despite the trappings of state protection, the roughly two dozen former street dogs enjoy, at most, a quasi-official status, conveyed by the frequently thin pretext that they are working security.
In the 1980s Victorian "sus" laws allowed police to search suspects on thin pretexts.
They and others described a pattern of professional meetings that were little more than thin pretexts for sexual advances on young actresses and models.
Mr. Kelly is correct that high levels of violence are intolerable and that those who would challenge stop-and-frisk — in which police officers use thin pretexts for streetside searches — must present credible alternatives.
A collective curiosity about the mysterious Howard provides a gossamer-thin pretext for the characters' continual assembling in Olive's apartment.
On the thinnest pretext, police say they suspect impaired driving and ask you to perform a breath test.
Bim Adewunmi blogs at yorubagirldancing.com I'm loth to reclaim stereotypes – which, after all, are just fictions applied to people on the thinnest of pretexts by others.
