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Sentences starting with pretending

Pretending to reflect upon these things, but in reality watching the blue-jays, who are pecking at the purple berries of the woodbine on the south gable, I approach the house. [4]

Sentences ending with pretending

But probably he knows it well enough and is only pretending. [2]

Short sentences using pretending

I stopped pretending after Waterloo. [4]

Sentences containing pretending two or more times

He sat with his wife in the little writing room, he pretending to read and she pretending to sew, until the silence grew too oppressive, and they spoke of the matter that was in their hearts. [9]

More example sentences with the word pretending in them

That is what you will get for pretending to be a member of Congress. [5]
Tickets and fares were high, but I traveled for nothing by pretending to be the conscience of an editor, and got in for half-price by representing myself to be the conscience of a clergyman. [5]
She understood him very well, though pretending otherwise. [11]
It has at various times brought forward collections of figures having the air of statistical documents, pretending to show a great proportional mortality among the patients of the Medical Profession, as compared with those treated according to its own rules. [3]
Joan looked up to see if he was serious, and perceiving that he was at least pretending to be, she declined, of course. [5]
I was going to say, you are better educated than you have been pretending to be. [5]
I confine myself to life with which I am familiar when pretending to portray life. [5]
Sometimes it seemed to him that other people were all as pleased as he was himself and merely tried to hide that pleasure by pretending to be busy with other interests. [2]
She felt the thing, instead of pretending to feel it--which makes all the difference. [11]
But what was the use of a young man's pretending to know anything in the presence of an old owl? [6]
It was he that, pretending to let Gering win his confidence, at last aided him to escape through the narrow corner-door of his cell. [11]
He is so spiritless and cowardly that even while his exposed teeth are pretending a threat, the rest of his face is apologizing for it. [5]
I saw very soon that you were only pretending to know me, and so as I had wasted a compliment on you in the beginning, I made up my mind to punish you. [5]
Without pretending, he says, to decide on Burr's innocence or guilt, "his situation is such as should appeal eloquently to the feelings of every generous bosom. [4]
Of course, Phelps said she was merely pretending to be ill; was never looking so well and fine. [5]
Without pretending to rival the alleged cases of life prolonged beyond the middle of its second century, such as those of Henry Jenkins and Thomas Parr, we can make a good showing of centenarians and nonagenarians. [6]
The fiends would retire, pretending to have abandoned the field, only to swoop down again when least expected. [9]
Mr. Penhallow then read from a printed paper the decision of the Supreme Court in the land case so long pending, where the estate of the late Malachi Withers was the claimant, against certain parties pretending to hold under an ancient grant. [6]
I am not pretending to write that character well. [5]
She had been pretending not to watch him. [9]
Is that irresistible power, which for fifty years has shaken the government and agitated the people, to be stifled and subdued by pretending that it is an exceedingly simple thing, and we ought not to talk about it? [7]
He set it on the hard earth floor and knelt by it, pretending to examine the ground closely. [5]
Now I had often seen pilots gazing at the water and pretending to read it as if it were a book; but it was a book that told me nothing. [5]
The Cossacks carried off what they could to their camps, and the householders seized all they could find in other houses and moved it to their own, pretending that it was their property. [2]
It was characteristic of her, however, when she went back for another load of dishes and perceived that Edward was only pretending to read his Banner, to attempt to ease her husband's feelings. [9]
Ephraim sat alone most of the day in his Windsor chair by the stove, pretending to read newspapers. [9]
And when you're lying asleep like that, or pretending to, you reach up- and kill. [11]
This was a little spat between the twins; not much of a spat, but still a spat; and before they got far with it, they were in a decided condition of irritation while pretending to be actuated by more respectable motives. [5]
And that's the kind of people that form our nobility; there's no use pretending that we haven't a nobility; we might as well pretend we haven't first-class cars in the presence of a vestibuled Pullman. [8]
The Fire-Tender is in the adjoining library, pretending to write; but it is a poor day for ideas. [4]
It's well that I'm a musketeer..." he sang, pretending to hiccough after each syllable. [2]
Cynthia sat with her back to the artist, pretending to read, but presently she turned to him. [9]
It will not help matters by pretending that people are better than they are. [4]
No sooner had he gone than two of the Dutchmen made their way overland to Jamestown, and, pretending Smith had sent them, procured arms, tools, and clothing. [4]
I suppose I'll have to keep pretending till I die! [11]
Well, the compadre had put blank cartridges in their rifles, and my father pretended to fall dead; and the soldiers were marched away; and my father, with my mother, was carried to his home, still pretending to be dead. [11]
He was so gratified with being chaffed about some damsel whom he had smitten with his charms that he used every means to continue the controversy by pretending to be annoyed at the chaffings of his fellows. [5]
Byles Gridley had got through reading the document he held,--or pretending to read it. [6]
He had been going about the house all the morning finding fault with everyone and pretending not to understand what was said to him and not to be understood himself. [2]
Pharaoh cast a glance of imploring anxiety at Bai, the second prophet, and the other councillors; but the former shrugged his shoulders deprecatingly and, pretending to yield his own opinion to the divine wisdom of Pharaoh, acceded to Hosea's request. [10]
About nine miles from St. Nicholas we crossed a bridge over the raging torrent of the Visp, and came to a log strip of flimsy fencing which was pretending to secure people from tumbling over a perpendicular wall forty feet high and into the river. [5]
The authorities in Cairo would never understand, and the babbling social-military folk would say that they had calmly gone shooting while pretending to stay the cholera epidemic. [11]
Janet was seized by a sudden and rather absurd desire to retreat, but Canal Street being empty, such an action would appear eccentric, and she came slowly forward, pretending not to see her employer, ridiculing to herself the idea that he had noticed her. [9]
I had only been pretending all the time. [11]
I revolted, walked away, got as far as the corner and stood beside a lamp post, pretending to be waiting for a car. [9]
Then he looked around--saw that nobody was looking at him--threw the dime down where it was before--walked away a few steps, and approached again, pretending he did not know it was there, so that he could re-enjoy the luxury of finding it. [5]
The richly dressed actresses and actors tripped about singing bravely and pretending not to mind it. [5]
It can, in accordance with its own choice in the matter, burn, bury, or preserve members who are pretending to be dead--whereas there is no such thing as death. [5]
Inside the house a fat, awkward man was struggling, or pretending to struggle, into his coat. [11]
I want my "asides," you see, to whisper loud to you who read my notes, and sometimes I talk a page or two to you without pretending that I said a word of it to our boarders. [6]

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