let on like
Example Sentences
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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
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
You've been shovin' that boy up the steps o' the pulpit ever since he let on like he could understand what you was sayin' to him, and maybe it's all right.
From The Quickening by Ashe, E. M.
Dock never laffed nor let on like he wuz jokin', but jest the same this sort uv thing tickled him nearly to deth.
From A Little Book of Profitable Tales by Field, Eugene
