pretend to sleep

People took part in the Piu Sik Parade at the Bun Festival in Hong Kong, Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump attended his trial at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York, Haitian school children played a game where they pretend to sleep, in their classroom, in Port-au-Prince.

I shall lie down and pretend to sleep, lest Jonathan have added anxiety about me when he returns.

He would sometimes lie down and pretend to sleep in the fairway, waiting for slower players to hit.

He would pretend to sleep when his parents peeked in at night — but really, he was listening to the transistor radio tucked under his pillow.

I didn’t have to pretend to sleep anymore, so I sat up and watched their silhouettes through the curtain.