playact
Example Sentences
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As a youngster, Brian liked to playact with the toys he made.
From Washington Post • Sep. 29, 2020
As the girls sit on the floor and playact a Sylvanian Families vignette, Maya asks Anna, “Can we, like, never not do this?”
From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2019
This is a part of the Fake Mean mode we sometimes affect with each other, which I find very soothing, because it lets us playact animosity without getting too real about it.
From Slate • Aug. 15, 2018
Do today’s guests want a 19th-century stage set on which to playact high society?
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 23, 2016
The two of them playact with each other, pretending to be cordial, but only so it will make the final betrayal even sweeter.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
