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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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
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