Sentence examples for we pretended that from inspiring English sources

We pretended that the prizes inside the crackers weren't crap.

We pretended that it was to spend more time with their adorable twin grandsons.

At dinner, we pretended that we had other things to talk about, until the husband of a friend who worked in the Pentagon arrived.

We pretended that Libya's freedom fighters were Homeric warriors; and now they control their little Islamist fiefdoms in Benghazi and Tripoli (having done away with the US ambassador), courtesy of Nato air strikes against Gaddafi.

"He said, 'Why can't we say that the Australia Council is a sporting body?' If we pretended that it was there for the promotion of football and cricket, the government would give it even more money".

"The public's judgment has been pretty good over the past 75 years, when we pretended that we didn't have a partisan media," said Maxine Isaacs, a lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.

We pretend that meritocracies — our favored word for modern competitions — are contests of equals.

We pretend that meritocracies our favored word for modern competitions are contests of equals.

We pretend that good politicians are the ones who think the same thing, always, forever.

Nor can we pretend that banning just one conversion technique will solve the problem.

Why do we pretend that understanding business means understanding everything else, too?