let on like

Example Sentences

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Why, they just don’t let on, like she was a regular person.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

I let on like I hadn’t seen this because I knew what it was.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

Seemed nobody had told Pastor Howard either, as he didn’t let on like he thought it was funny.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

I pretended not to see her; let on like I was hunting for a squirrel up in a tree, until she came up.

From The Jucklins A Novel by Read, Opie Percival

But Steve did n't let on like he noticed Bills at all, and rech and shuck hands with the other boys and ast how they was all a-comin' on.

From Pipes O'Pan at Zekesbury by Riley, James Whitcomb