Sentence examples for visible pretext from inspiring English sources

If you are alone for long enough, the "habitually silent partner" begins to speak, "without being addressed and without any visible pretext".

September 11th was a pretext.

But decommissioning is a pretext.

The least pretext is enough.

This is obviously a pretext.

Security is a pretext".

A pretext to detain a foreign national?

They just killed them without any pretext".

"On the slightest pretext, they execute people".

Often, this argument is just a pretext.

But this is a pretext.