Sentence examples for this pretence from inspiring English sources

Let's stop this pretence of prophylaxis.

But now it is this pretence that is a lie.

When he does indeed vanish, their mother decides to maintain this pretence.

I make this pretence to myself – as well as to others.

Still, we all do it - this pretence of touching one another.

(He cites the vision of Local World's chairman, David Montgomery, as an example of this pretence of local journalism).

He described the US as a "Leviathan security state" and went on to say: "What's most disturbing about this is the pretence of counter-terrorism or the pretence of the war on terror or the pretence of even proper cause is not even in this.

Speak if this be pretence!" is just one of the many choice phrases that, somehow, this assured cast is able to make sound natural.

Every week for the Saints there has been this false pretence that they are a much better team than their record shows, but the reality is otherwise.

If we don't like what we see we must stop this foolish pretence that war, however "just", can ever be anything but a brutal mess.

"Although we may not have seen the back end of the machinations, we have seen the back of the pretence that this is not machinations.