Sentence examples for with pretended from inspiring English sources

"His fingers... trembled visibly, and his first cigar, which he had been puffing with pretended sangfroid, now slowly grew cold and dropped from his teeth".

"You mean you didn't try hard enough?" I asked with pretended surprise.

"But what's the deal with pretending we're family?" I keep saying.

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Is there anything wrong with pretending to be a kid when you're not?

"I'm not going to fool around with pretending I know how to plumb my own building".

So what's so wrong with pretending women need special lady-products, apart from it being patently untrue?

But Mr. Hanson's play gets away with pretending to be a parody, so we forgive it — even for having the nerve to provide a resolution.

Ruby's very good at seeing through my chirpy veneer and doesn't let me get away with pretending everything's fine.

I've never been invited to one of the urban living rooms where Shawn's plays are sometimes staged, so I content myself with pretending he is a novelist, and lately I think I am no longer pretending.

A former National Guardsman was charged Wednesday with pretending to be a soldier after the authorities say he persuaded an officer at Fort Gordon to give him a sophisticated laser sight.