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• Lest that too heavenly form, pretended / To hellish falsehood, snare them.
• He pretends to enter the nobility.
• He pretends an affection that he does not feel.
• They pretended they were happier than they were.
• Children love to pretend.
• He pretended not to know what they were talking about.
• pretend to = faire semblant de = faire mine de
• Pastorella […] Was by the Captaine all this while defended, / Who, minding more her safety then himselfe, / His target alwayes over her pretended […].
• Such as shall pretend / Malicious practices against his state.
• "After what past at Upton, so soon to engage in a new amour with another woman, while I fancied, and you pretended, your heart was bleeding for me!"
• Luster claimed that the women had consented to sex and were only pretending to be asleep.
• "The truth is, Ma'am," said Mrs. Grant, pretending to whisper across the table to Mrs. Norris, "that Dr. Grant hardly knows what the natural taste of our apricot is [...]."
• People observed the diversity of schools and the acerbity of their disputes, and decided that all alike were pretending to knowledge which was in fact unattainable.
• Chiefs shall be grudged the part which they pretend.
• Gap and other clothes manufacturers should stop using small subcontractors because they are difficult to control. Instead, they should open up their own fully-owned production facilities so that they cannot pretend ignorance when abuses are committed.
• This let him know, / Lest, willfully transgressing, he pretend / Surprisal.
• I have nothing but contempt for people who hire ghost-writers. But at least most faux authors have the decency to pretend that they are sweating blood over "their" book.
• ‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’