pretend
Example Sentences
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"Let's not pretend someone expected it. I was outside the top 100 and now I'm in the final of a Grand Slam. It is hard to process," she said.
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026
A year and a half out, it seems a million years away, and I dread the day we pass each other somewhere in the city we both still live in and pretend to be strangers.
From Salon • Jun. 1, 2026
At one point he stuck out his hand to pretend he held the distant band shell in his cupped palm.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
He would pretend to get married in the middle of a call or announce he’d just crashed his car.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
But sometimes, while playing house, Sam would have an urge to race around with the pretend dinner in its plastic dish, and bomb the animals instead of feeding them nicely.
From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry
Vocabulary lists containing pretend
"Eleven"
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"Eleven," Vocabulary from the short story
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"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll, Chapters 1–3
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