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Example sentences for "pretended"

Lexicographically close words:
prete; pretence; pretences; pretend; pretende; pretendedly; pretender; pretenders; pretendest; pretendeth
  1. I had no longer a doubt as to the identity of the pretended Greek.

  2. In that case, I might have claimed the honour for my vessel, which is larger than either," observed Mr Sandgate, with a tone in which I detected a sneer lurking under a pretended laugh.

  3. I, of course, as she did, could not help connecting the brig in sight with the appearance of the pretended Count Gerovolio in the catacombs.

  4. Porpoise having thus delivered himself, in accordance with our plan, pretended to be intently looking over the taffrail.

  5. Kindly twilight veiled her, and a chatty sparrow who perched upon the window-ledge pretended that he had not noticed two tears which trembled, quivering, upon the girl's lashes.

  6. Evidently Aramis pretended to sleep; for, instead of waking suddenly, he who slept so lightly required a repetition of the summons.

  7. Conde having been to pay his respects to the king on his pretended rising, inscribed the city of Poitiers upon his tablets, as the place of sojourn and rest for their majesties.

  8. And Lucian Davlin, your pretended brother, was your accomplice?

  9. When I asked the reason for the change, Peterson pretended not to know.

  10. If Roger had come back; if, after all, he had only pretended to go for the pearl-stringer!

  11. What if the girl had pretended illness as an excuse to bring O'Reilly into the flat, and the man had frightened Beverley into giving him the pearls?

  12. Roger pretended that he had an engagement.

  13. She felt the blood stream to her face, and taking up the empty coffee cup, pretended to drink.

  14. By that time they were engaged in new enterprises, as the old ones were too risky; but they always pretended to be working for Labour against Capital.

  15. While he pretended to dine and read an "evening edition," a hateful little voice in Roger's brain chirped suggestions to him.

  16. Unfortunately the Russian--or pretended Russian--was allowed to escape in the confusion, but the police had hopes of getting upon his track.

  17. Characterisms~, or the Modern Age Displayed; being an Attempt to Expose the Pretended Virtues of Both Sexes, 12mo (part i.

  18. The pretended Greek derivation from slogo is humbug, there being no such word in the language.

  19. He rolled out with a sly smile, looked at me in silence a long time, and then pretended to shake with silent laughter.

  20. As I went up on deck, I again passed Mr. Falk and again he pretended not to see me.

  21. Gist and Washington, suspecting treachery, pretended it was only an accident; but when the Indian left them at night, promising to come back in the morning, they promptly broke camp.

  22. But she pretended to be sound asleep, and let him knock at her door three times before she rose, yawning, to show him out.

  23. These pretended to be very wise, and frightened the others by dancing and yelling wildly, and using strange words and signs.

  24. Early the next day, Zaldivar and part of his force pretended to storm the north side of the rock.

  25. The children were now punished when they pretended to be under a spell, and the Salem witchcraft delusion came to an end.

  26. But his pride was so hurt at having to give up his sword, that he pretended illness, and sent one of his officers to carry it to Washington.

  27. It was pretended that the Clergy would not suffer this to be done in a Church or Chapel where neglect of reverence of the Holy Sacrament should give scandal.

  28. Her back was towards us, and she was, or pretended to be, still ignorant of our presence.

  29. I looked about without answering, and at last pretended to find them; while she stood watching me, tapping the ground with one foot the while.

  30. She pretended not to know what I was talking about, and assured me she had never been anything but a Y.

  31. So I hung my head and pretended to be dreadfully shy, and murmured she might congratulate me if she wished to.

  32. You cut me at the Court; you were displeased at having to sit by me at dinner; you have pretended not to see me at least four times since then, and your butler showed me up by mistake.

  33. He renewed the accusation of plotting against the Republic, and of the pretended shameful relations with Nicomedes.

  34. He pretended that, in attacking his own allies, the Saguntines had been the aggressors.

  35. With regard to the latter, it was pretended that this change was due to Caesar's connection with his mother.

  36. Cato alone, inexorable, pretended that these arts would soon corrupt the Roman youth, and destroy its taste for arms; and he caused these philosophers to be dismissed.

  37. The patricians pretended that they alone had the power of giving laws.

  38. Yes, he pretended to, but I spat at him and bade him leave me forever.

  39. It drove the younger from all attempts at pretended regard or concealment of his profligacy, and was, I believe, the cause of his final ruin.

  40. I then pretended that I had shaken him in sport, and thus escaped a drubbing, of which I was at first in danger.

  41. The second preliminary fact is this: Christianity has never pretended to supply a theoretical explanation of why suffering had to be.

  42. We pray for the victims of evil habits, the slaves of alcohol or morphine, or any other pretended redeemer of the soul from weariness and pain.

  43. Such great believers, whose faith shone brightest when the night was darkest, have not pretended to know the explanation of suffering in God's world.

  44. For some of them, watching the place with all care, when they could not prevent his rising again, said that he was a magician; others pretended that he was stolen away.

  45. The Jews of Toledo pretended to possess similar letters in the reign of Alfonso the Valiant, A.

  46. The robin pretended not to be at all surprised, but felt it a duty to inform a coot who lived a quarter of a mile away among the reeds of the lower pond.

  47. There was Thompson, the old pompous family butler; they trusted him because he was silent and rarely smiled, winked at their mischief, pretended not to see them when he caught them in his pantry, and never once betrayed them.

  48. Grown-ups pretended they didn't, but they did.

  49. It completely unmasked the pretended friendship of the Colonizationists for the negroes, free or slave.

  50. But he pretended not to hear, and the hood remained as it was.

  51. Others have written statements of the pretended masters of the accidents, and the supposed signatures of the works are affixed to them.

  52. They have false briefs, pretended to be signed by two magistrates and the clergyman of the place where the fire is alleged to have taken place.

  53. As slaves, they were loved and protected; as pretended freemen, they were execrated and persecuted.

  54. In fine, he means it is no failure, because the laborers of England are not half so free now as before their pretended emancipation.


  55. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pretended" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    affected; alleged; apocryphal; artificial; assumed; avowed; bastard; bogus; colored; counterfeit; distorted; dummy; embellished; embroidered; factitious; fake; falsified; feigned; fictitious; formal; garbled; glossy; hypocritical; illegitimate; imitation; mimic; mock; nominal; ostensible; outward; perverted; phoney; phony; pinchbeck; pious; pretended; professed; pseudo; purport; quasi; queer; seeming; sham; shoddy; simulated; specious; spurious; supposed; supposititious; tin; tinsel; twisted; unauthentic; unnatural; unreal; warped