Sentence examples for this pretense from inspiring English sources

By giving up sex, I abandoned all this pretense.

Even this pretense of concord now seems gone.

In cities of strangers, this pretense can be very dear.

Nowhere is this pretense stretched more amusingly thin than on the waters of the lake.

It's this pretense, this desperation, that's making this convention unbearable to watch.

Given this pretense, the theory says what numbers are like, or what they would be like if they existed.

I say this because despite the pretense that this is the first critical biography of Rockwell, it is not.

This was the pretense, though, the necessary nod to the present that allowed Diddy to dive headlong into the past.

In this sense, the pretense of form -- that it is a serial -- is simply a pretense.

To not acknowledge a jealous rage as a factor in the reasoning of the trouncing of a colleague before your shared followers -- this defies the pretense of one's reasoning being superior to another.

Clinging to this implausible pretense — that a few pennies can help someone kick, say, a porn habit — is understandable.