pretended

Example Sentences

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“We tried to have a baby and we tried to have a baby and when my parents and sister and friends asked I pretended I didn’t want one,” Khong writes.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

The vice president pretended to pivot from “a longer discussion” of the subject, but then he immediately started pontificating about the culture’s “desire” to classify “celestial beings who fly around “as aliens.”

From Salon • Apr. 1, 2026

It’s that it apparently knowingly produced fake results and falsely pretended they were real and accurate.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 18, 2026

In the campaign identified by Dutch intelligence agencies, hackers pretended to be Signal Support to try and get people to share account details.

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026

“It must be the neoclassical symmetry of his eyebrows,” she murmured, and pretended to sketch those very eyebrows in the margin of her book with a fingertip.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood