pretend
Example Sentences
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Sport might be your passion but please try to stop falling asleep in Mr Simpson's English class, pretending to read your book.
From BBC
I know he knows Tūtū is there, but he’s pretending he doesn’t.
From Literature
At one point, the brothers appeared to be pretending to look at their phones at waist height.
From BBC
“Let’s not pretend this is something rational or calibrated,” he said.
From MarketWatch
Instead, Mr. Mahan thinks the state should focus “on waste, fraud and abuse. I don’t get politicians who defend the status quo and pretend that government couldn’t possibly be more efficient, more effective, more technology-enabled.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
