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Examples of pretended
pretended
Students broke into teams and pretended they were workers in a doughnut factory.
From the thenewstribune.com
Every time I tried to get my point across he twisted it, pretended to soothe me.
From the guardian.co.uk
They told me about Fellini and I pretended to know what they were talking about.
From the irishtimes.com
I felt my fingertips go cold, and I pretended to clean more hair from the brush.
From the theatlantic.com
Children wearing firefighter's hats climbed onboard and pretended to be firemen.
From the ocregister.com
Dawson has never pretended to write anything but simple, melodic acoustic tunes.
From the denverpost.com
She pretended to throw up, getting a nervous laugh out of the troops behind her.
From the dailyherald.com
Then a year later, they got back together and we all pretended it didn't happen.
From the well.blogs.nytimes.com
The employee said he pretended to sign in and began walking around the building.
From the freep.com
- Assumed: adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty"
- (pretend) make-believe: imagined as in a play; "the make-believe world of theater"; "play money"; "dangling their legs in the water to catch pretend fish"
- (pretend) feign: make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache"
- (pretend) dissemble: behave unnaturally or affectedly; "She's just acting"
- (pretend) put forward a claim and assert right or possession of; "pretend the title of King"
- (pretend) guess: put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation; "I am guessing that the price of real estate will rise again"; "I cannot pretend to say that you are wrong"
- (pretend) make: represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like; "She makes like an actress"
- (pretend) profess: state insincerely; "He professed innocence but later admitted his guilt"; "She pretended not to have known the suicide bomber"; "She pretends to be an expert on wine"
- (pretending) pretense: the act of giving a false appearance; "his conformity was only pretending"
