Sentence examples for to pretension from inspiring English sources
noun
A claim or aspiration to a particular status or quality.
Cromer, however, has an aversion to pretension.
This is a band that has infuriated some partisans of black metal, for reasons ranging from heresy to pretension.
Moreover, he was nice man who worked hard and, while gawkily approximating a dandyish mien, never succumbed to pretension.
He added "de Rola" to his name, fancifully claiming noble birth; he was given to pretension all his life.
"Right now I'm actually in college studying thermal insulation," he says with a winning indifference to pretension.
It's sincerity rather than camp, but it's likewise an affront to pretension because you're not playing the game.
At the higher level of loading, contact force due to pretensioning of bolts is entirely neutralized, and only prying force is retained.
The selected multi-variables of each mooring line are screened individually to generate feasible regions according to pretensions and initial hang-off angles.
You want to draw attention to yourself, to your pretensions, and your pretense.
It's time to abandon pretensions, to stop sniggering, and to admit that the Bee Gees are fantastic.
To fight pretension, Ms. Harris sang quietly.
