pretended

Example Sentences

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“We tried to have a baby and we tried to have a baby and when my parents and sister and friends asked I pretended I didn’t want one,” Khong writes.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

The vice president pretended to pivot from “a longer discussion” of the subject, but then he immediately started pontificating about the culture’s “desire” to classify “celestial beings who fly around “as aliens.”

From Salon • Apr. 1, 2026

It’s that it apparently knowingly produced fake results and falsely pretended they were real and accurate.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 18, 2026

They were what “so many Germans pretended to have been after the war: unpolitisch, ‘apolitical.’”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

We kind of just kept eating, pretended it didn’t happen, and hoped the bad mood would go away.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz