Sentence examples for was to pretend from inspiring English sources

For a long time, the Administration's policy was to pretend that they didn't exist.

Tellingly, her strategy with Ted Andrews was to pretend he didn't exist.

His whole schtick with women was to pretend he wanted to have sex with them.

So my ruse was to pretend to want to do a documentary about him: the journalist in exile.

Madden said the only way to prepare for Sunday's game was to pretend that Thursday's game never happened.

The Soviet solution was to pretend the other matches had not taken place and to embellish the idea of a death match, Bykova said.

Contrast that to earlier phases of the Turkish republic, when the approach of the political class to overcoming divisions was to pretend they did not exist.

One topic from the class on intelligence was "to pretend to your enemy that you are not their enemy until you can kill them".

Mr. Parkes said, "He was so going-for-the-laugh that I thought the most appropriate thing to do was to pretend he wasn't wearing it".

Prosecutors say Madoff's modus operandi was to pretend that he could guarantee huge returns on clients' investments - in some cases, promising profits of up to 46%.

The worst betrayal of all was to pretend in Rio that 20 years later we still shared that original purity of vision and sense of wonder.