pretend
Example Sentences
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They have crooned to covers of Taylor Swift and Sabrina Carpenter, danced in the style of K-pop stars and pretended to have beef with other boy bands—and Katy Perry, too.
"My Ghanaian identity is not pretend," she says.
From BBC
Across the room, Yarrow cleans up the mess on the floor, red-faced, as everyone else pretends not to notice.
From Literature
We pretend not to notice how long someone’s delivery has been sitting in the lobby.
From Salon
We stay in the sea for hours pretending we are mermaids, and when we finally come out, our skin is all wrinkly.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
