pretend
Example Sentences
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I'm not one of those people, and I don't pretend that everyone is that way.
From BBC • Jun. 7, 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
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
‘I feel like I’m living a lie’: My husband and I pretend we’re strapped for cash in front of friends.
From MarketWatch • May 27, 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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