let on like

Example Sentences

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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

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

He told her he was willin' to have her, and the fool gal let on like she didn't want him.

From The Power and the Glory by Keller, Arthur Ignatius

And what does she do but out into the barn and shoot the gun into the air, and come back and let on like the horse is gone.

From The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)