pretend
Example Sentences
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A year and a half out, it seems a million years away, and I dread the day we pass each other somewhere in the city we both still live in and pretend to be strangers.
From Salon • Jun. 1, 2026
‘I feel like I’m living a lie’: My husband and I pretend we’re strapped for cash in front of friends.
From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026
Mr. Schmidt exemplifies the propensity among a few tech titans to pretend they’d never urged anyone to panic about a coming climate apocalypse.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026
We’re fighting a society that wants to keep our work in the dark, to pretend that this isn’t happening, that it can be abolished by throwing people into prison.
From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026
“You really don’t think this is weird? We were making a pretend submarine. How can a refrigerator box travel underwater?”
From "Wolfie & Fly" by Cary Fagan
Vocabulary lists containing pretend
"Eleven"
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"Eleven," Vocabulary from the short story
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"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll, Chapters 1–3
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