Use of pretense in Sentences. 25 Examples

The examples include pretense at the start of sentence, pretense at the end of sentence and pretense in the middle of sentence

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pretense at the start of sentence


  1. Pretense invariably impresses only the pretender.

pretense at the end of sentence


  1. Let's cut out the pretense.
  2. False pretence or us false pretense.
  3. The whistle cuts through all fantasy and pretense.
  4. Sometimes the best offense is a ghoulish pretense.
  5. The satire touches with finespun ridicule every kind of human pretense.

pretense in the middle of sentence


  1. You can't keep up the pretense any longer.
  2. Tollitt made no pretense of being surprised.
  3. The house was decorated without any pretense of showiness.
  4. Abandoning any pretense at politeness, they ran for the door.
  5. Absence of pretense artificiality, full creative intent unforced.
  6. Arguments were subsumed under the pretense that they had not been heard.
  7. She was an adventuress, unabashedly ambitious, totally without pretense, searching for fame.
  8. But it will strip away a little pretense and artifice, and maybe even put back a little passion.
  9. Seeing through the pretense, my little boy let go of my coat and walked on silently with downcast eyes.
  10. Now and then, the real priorities and the concealed agenda do break through the pretense of compassion.
  11. Under the pretense of authenticity and accuracy, news docudramas take unacceptable license with the truth.
  12. Eventually he would turn away, either because he accepted my pretense or because he was not sure it was one.
  13. John then-and this is the important point-was able to deliver on his early pretense and Big Promise potential.
  14. The result is a passionate, deeply informed account that makes no pretense of being a balanced work of history.
  15. She knew a couple of friends elsewhere who lived together under the pretense of sharing an apartment or duplex.
  16. Restatement: pretense and adversity are inversely proportional; adversity reveals the true nature of all things.
  17. The hypocrisy is the pretense that the players are scholars whose colleges are competing for the glory of it all.
  18. What the Internet hucksters won't tell you is that the World Wide Web is an ocean of unedited data, without any pretense of completeness .
  19. Aristotle had made no secret of his contempt for Alexander's pretense of divinity, and the king had executed Aristotle's grandnephew Callisthenes as a traitor.

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