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

Then you c'n let on like you're lookin' fer me because I'd robbed a hen-roost er something, an' that'll get 'em off their guard.

From The Daughter of Anderson Crow by McCutcheon, George Barr

But Steve didn't let on like he noticed Bills at all, and retch and shuk hands with the other boys and ast how they was all a-comin' on.

From Neghborly Poems and Dialect Sketches by Riley, James Whitcomb