Sentence examples for us to pretend from inspiring English sources

But it suits Britain and the US to pretend – with doubtful logic – that they would have gathered the nine votes that they needed if the unreasonable, extremist M. Chirac had not made his veto threat.

And yet he won't just go away, which would allow us to pretend that drug use — opportunism of another sort — was a short-lived experiment rather than an inevitable and ongoing challenge.

But that urge is there, and art can't ask us to pretend that it isn't.

This was awful, but loyalty required us to pretend that it was not.

No, our clashing allows us to pretend we belong to civilizations.

"I do not want us to pretend that these pseudo-meat dishes are meat dishes".

It is bowlers and batsmen, them and us, and little use to pretend otherwise.

How many of us try to pretend it's not happening, that it can't happen to us, and instead think of reasons why she stayed, why it happened to her, but could never happen to us.

North Korea threatened an attack if Sony Pictures released The Interview, forcing us all to pretend we wanted to see it".

Here are the other best lines from the pair's final performance: Making fun of The Interview Amy Poehler: The biggest story in Hollywood this year was when North Korea threatened an attack if Sony Pictures released The Interview, forcing us all to pretend we wanted to see it.

Even when Ryan Adams jested, as he neared the end of his Cadogan Hall set last year, that this was the point at which he would put on his jacket and expect us all to pretend that we think he's leaving and clap enthusiastically before he returns, minutes later, it felt like a joke that's wearing a bit thin.