Use "pretending" in a sentence

1. ” She wipes the counter, pretending not to care

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2. She wondered if Herndon was only pretending to be asleep and listening in

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3. ‘Kate, no point pretending I don’t find you exciting, is there?’ he said, looking at me in such a way that my heart starts pounding

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4. "And…" Parker said, pretending to casually wander between him and Timms, "That means exactly what, Lt

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5. It was a whole culture of pretending to be hard-line while being secretly sybaritic

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6. It was all shown out of scale, of course, and the Lancers’ fighters were the size of pigeons as they spread out around the breaching ship, pretending they couldn’t see the stealthed alien stalking them

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7. He's torn between whom to believe, the friends who are pretending to be his enemies, or the enemies acting as his friends

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8. ‘Yes, I think you do, Karalintze … you can’t spend the rest of your life pretending to the world that you and Joris were not partnered

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9. ‘You had a pleasant ride, Lintze?’ Wiesse asked as we begin our meal, his attempt at pretending an interest nearly oversetting me it is so forced

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10. I looked out to sea, pretending to be calm although inside I was a quivering wreck

11. Wiesse struggles with himself while I, pretending a calm I do not feel, help myself to more salad

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12. The dipsticks from the terminus had arrived and moved to a table in the corner, sitting in silence and pretending to watch the view through their shades

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13. We have to know the truth, are these state changes conducting information or just random noise like energy produces? Or was Thom doing just what he had done, generating a false universe and pretending it is real data? Or was he generating a false universe and believing it was real data? Without understanding how those signals actually originated, there was no way to tell

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14. their own problems are no less ill pretending that they are fine

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15. "Right, of course you will", said the soldier pretending to be interested

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16. Together with Sir John and his cabinet colleagues, the great politician swept through the corridors of power and into the office where the two doctors of spin were pretending to type away furiously at blank computer screens

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17. ‘After the birth I just could not carry on pretending that our marriage was anything but a sham … so I told him the whole story

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18. “Out here, superconductivity is free, rivers of liquid helium might flow deep in that iceworld we just passed,” Thom pointed somewhere, pretending there was an 'out there' going by them in some sense

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19. If we pretend to be someone we're not, how the hell are they to know? On the other hand, if we can just be ourselves, win or lose, then OK, we reflect on some and not on others - but at least we are true to our real self with no pretending

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20. A lot of the remaining crew were pretending to follow it, with Delos Alverez trying especially hard to look like he was not only following, but grading it

21. Kelvin was afraid he already knew and was only pretending he figured it out from Kelvin’s questions

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22. I had a toy crossbow, I was pretending I was going after theirops

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23. Pretending to savour it, she stood sipping the water, her back to the sink, surveying the room

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24. He grins as Bex looks away, pretending to examine a picture of Ernest Hemmingway on the back of a boat holding up what looks like a reef shark

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25. He ought to have told her, instead of just pretending that nothing was wrong, getting up and going to work as usual … spending the day lounging around the job centre praying that something would come up, but the closure of the works had thrown a lot of men onto the dole

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26. There was no sense in pretending the other didn’t know what was going on, was there? “So you’re admitting that I am under suspicion?”

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27. Not much point pretending I don’t know what she is talking about!

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28. If that was so, what could he believe? Maybe Ava is Tdeshi all along, playing an elaborate hoax on him, pretending not to remember anything, laying a guilt trip on him for not investigating what happened to her? Maybe all she did when she said she O

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29. The guy who they spoke of was still there, pretending he was just leaning on the rail consulting his map

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30. … how little I know her … shut the door … what now? What are the kidse doing? Ah … they’re in the lounge … watching TV or pretending to at least

31. Maybe she was pretending Lapnar was actually here when she put them in

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32. what's her name, was supposed to be there sometime around ten, to discuss the preparations for the Summer Fair, but before then she had to do all that she’d let laps, while pretending to keep up with Jim

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33. were all still pretending that he only came on business

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34. The three of us separated, pretending to

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35. The story, what he told of it, jived with what he told Desa except that he pretended he believed it really was a bad RNAcid trip, at least he thought he was pretending

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36. Pretending I wasn’t there

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37. It was clear to me, however, that by pretending that I was really dying I might get him to confess

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38. Helen of Troy guessed the plot and tried to get the men to show themselves by pretending to be one of their wives

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39. idols used to be pitiless and pretending immolation in

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40. the Inn, but they were pretending not to notice

41. courtyard, she paused for a few seconds, pretending that her sandal had slipped loose

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42. She lingered for a moment longer, pretending to wipe up crumbs she’d noticed on the

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43. Though at present few people, I believe, doubt of this, yet during this period five years have seldom passed away, in which some book or pamphlet has not been published, written, too, with such abilities as to gain some authority with the public, and pretending to demonstrate that the wealth of the nation was fast declining; that the country was depopulated, agriculture neglected, manufactures decaying, and trade undone

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44. Pretending they hadn’t heard Father, the youths continued carousing

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45. She sat down on the couch and opened her well of tears, pretending to be hurt by his rejection

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46. Stop pretending that you need to think things through

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47. pretending? Nerissa much preferred this interpretation

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48. Why are they here? Why are they pretending to give a fuck about his death?

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49. ” she stopped suddenly, pretending to only just notice the three grimacing faces confronting them

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50. It was upon this silly notion, however, that England could not subsist without the Portugal trade, that, towards the end of the late war, France and Spain, without pretending either offence or provocation, required the king of Portugal to exclude all British ships from his ports, and, for the security of this exclusion, to receive into them French or Spanish garrisons

51. Chase said, pretending to pick something up from the floor

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52. Without pretending, therefore, that they had paid any part, either of the original purchase money, or of the subsequent expense of improvement, they petitioned the parliament, that the cultivators of America might for the future be confined to their shop; first, for buying all the goods which they wanted from Europe; and, secondly, for selling all such parts of their own produce as those traders might find it convenient to buy

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53. Grace closed her eyes and lay back, pretending in her mind that her mouth was her cunt and that she was being fucked

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54. The court of king's bench, instituted for the trial of criminal causes only, took cognizance of civil suits; the plaintiff pretending that the defendant, in not doing him justice, had been guilty of some trespass or misdemeanour

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55. Looking at Him happily pretending His Father was a donkey, I wondered how I could ever give Him up

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56. pretending, I suppose, we were still 14 years old

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57. pretending not to be Angela Maybury

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58. Rosemary sat with eyes closed pretending to be sleeping

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59. It's former rural setting was slowly being gobbled up by rows of semi-detached middle income estates of two storied houses, pretending to blend into the countryside behind clumps of trees, that the developers in their wisdom had not obliterated, completely

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60. He sat for a few minutes, pretending to search for something in the glove compartment, but really, waiting for his hands to stop shaking

61. It had been an awkward moment then, both pretending that it was only a birthday party

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62. The three of them were smiling and pretending to be extremely interested in what the other had to say

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63. Without, however, pretending to determine whether such a union be practicable or

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64. ” She kept her head down, pretending she had a sliver in her finger

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65. It's no good pretending any more

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66. Nobody could be as stupid as he’s pretending to be

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67. Two hours of pretending he wasn’t afraid, of trying to convince himself

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68. A few steps later, she glanced in a storefront window, pretending interest in a strop-and-razor kit

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69. the way by pretending to hire me

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70. Always having airs, pretending you’re something better

71. Hoover wore his food bowl on his head, pretending to be a bloodthirsty pirate

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72. Ajax was brandishing a stick, pretending to be Captain Crook

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73. It is easy enough, I suppose, for café latte types earning above average salaries to criticize the company from the vantage point of high-rise corporate towers and sprawling industrial parks where office workers, comfortably ensconced in the privacy of their cubicles, routinely shop on their Internets or indulge in a casual game of solitaire while pretending to look busy

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74. The power of Pretending cannot be overstated

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75. If you are a student of the many metaphysical Masters offering all types of courses these days, you will realize that Imagining clearly what you want and pretending it has already come to pass, is a vital step in the manifesting process

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76. At some point, then, as I continued this Pretending, Imagining the trip together, which is surprisingly easy to do, suddenly someone approached us

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77. “But then, nothing lasts forever, does it; so, what happened?” He laughed again at her – something she would normally not tolerate for one instant; instead she managed a chuckle pretending she understood perfectly whatever the joke might be

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78. “Let’s stop pretending

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79. So, how does that help you? You said the driver stopped talking: did he tell them where he got it or who was supposed to receive it before he shut up?” Truman asked, pretending he cared

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80. I wanted to shout, “You hypocrite, pretending we’ve not

81. The downwind grew into a real gale, and the stands around us were upturned, and some were even swept away, while the few folks who had been sitting behind them just kept on pretending everything was in place

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82. He worked it into the small of his back by pretending to scratch himself, the big bag with colourful lettering acting as blind cover

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83. The amount of barge traffic on the Vistula had increased steadily as they moved closer to the Baltic, and they were forced to move ever more slowly, pretending to be carrying out survey work, as they wended their way northward

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84. “Argyl, there is no shame in pretending

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85. Harry pretending to be hurt, "What you on about?"

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86. But just going on pretending they’re stronger than they really are…”

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87. She barely glanced back at the lieutenant with an uncertain grin, pretending to feel awkward

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88. 'Where do you want it?' while pretending you have a mouthful of vanilla milkshake

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89. “Henceforth, he considered the institution of the papacy (as) the enemy of Christ, confound(ing) Christianity by pretending to rule it

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90. They were feigning a straight up street fight and pretending to use weapons against each other and shiznit like that but it was all a part of their up rock

91. She continued looking all around, pretending as if my words didn’t bother her much

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92. “You aren’t helping me by pretending it isn’t

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93. But the same reasons Tobias gave for pretending we aren’t together hold me back

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94. “To me that means either you’re falsely accused or good at pretending

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95. Milne’s Winnie the Pooh books as “textbooks,” pretending to be very serious as I changed into a silly voice to read aloud the zany passages

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96. As I shut the door, I see Christina pretending to vomit, and Cara laughing, and Tris’s hands hanging at her sides

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97. "You know you're only pretending," protested Mary Vance, "and I wish you wouldn't

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98. She might not have been trying to listen in, but if Stefan had been a second earlier, Nick was certain she’d have gone flying into his office, landing on the floor instead of pretending to be coming after his signature

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