15 example sentences using pretend.
Pretend used in a sentence
Pretend in a sentence as a noun
Well, let's pretend its a "good day" and 50% of your cells live.
Dont try to pretend youre stupid, or else youre going to look stupid.
They will spoof email headers and pretend they're someone else.
But I don't pretend to be a surgeon and perforate a patient's aorta.
It's not to pretend that the whole market for devs has suddenly embraced temp- to- perm hiring.
Pretend in a sentence as a verb
When someone is learning, help them learn more.> When something isn't good, you needn't pretend that it is.
Impossible?Seems to me like you're indignant with a touch of ego: "How dare he pretend to do my job.
It's like they are saying, "If you can at least pretend that I'm a good person, just doing my job, then you won't have to suffer.
Be better than you were the day before, don't pretend that it's about having money "laying around".
Zynga likes to pretend that their Z-Cloud gives them an advantage over their competitors.
Pretend in a sentence as an adjective
I know that Chesky is trying to pretend that this is about people who occasionally share their homes, but that's ********.
They are sufficient for convincing me. I'm not going to pretend like they present a compelling argument.
That idealistic **** is a luxury of the extremely privileged, and you need to pretend it as a status signal, but don't believe your own lie.
There's almost no legitimate use case for them other than creating pretend currencies that make people hit the skinner box lever harder and spend more money.
How'd they make it to so many other stores?The kids physically go to the store to buy school computers?The kids are such good actors that they fooled the author & all other salespeople?A teacher would actually allow kids to pretend that they're disabled?No bulk discount or pre-arranged deal?All other employees in the mall were mean to deaf kids?Author doesn't remember which Apple product was debuting?I hate to be "that guy" -- but this story is most likely fiction.
Pretend definitions
the enactment of a pretense; "it was just pretend"
See also: make-believe
make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache"
behave unnaturally or affectedly; "She's just acting"
See also: dissemble
put forward a claim and assert right or possession of; "pretend the title of King"
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"
represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like; "She makes like an actress"
See also: make
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"
See also: profess
imagined as in a play; "the make-believe world of theater"; "play money"; "dangling their legs in the water to catch pretend fish"
See also: make-believe