pretend
Example Sentences
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New plan: Pretend to be from the future and insist that the only way to avoid a calamitous chain of events is if Nirvanna plays a show at the Rivoli.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026
“You got questions for me? Fine. Pretend I’m a random fishing boat and fire away.”
From Salon • Dec. 7, 2025
In April of this year he started to advertise Pretend To Work, and within a month all the workstations were full.
From BBC • Aug. 10, 2025
Pretend that I didn’t know the facts, because they challenged the narrative about who we were, and how my hubris had contributed to it.
From Slate • Apr. 16, 2024
“Why did you check yourself in? Twenty-one days ago. Whoops. Reverse those. Pretend I ended with the question.”
From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini
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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