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
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I let on like I hadn’t seen this because I knew what it was.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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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
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I'm just to be, not to make believe or let on like I was, but to be a real lady inside.
From The Shepherd of the Hills by Wright, Harold Bell
Wanted to let on like as ef he'd run out of his own accord, with malice aforethought, you know.
From The End of the World A Love Story by Eggleston, Edward