Pretended used in a sentence

Pretended in a sentence as an adjective

So they pretended they were going to hook me up with a room, then sprung this out of nowhere.

I pretended to be blue collar in my twenties, thinking I would be the next great socialist author.

If i needed to interact with someone he knew, i just logged into his IM or email and pretended to be him.

After they left, no one did anything to help the kid, and everyone just pretended like nothing happened.

If we're just a group of guys or whatever I don't want you to be pretended to be interested in who we are, what we do.

After that, she pretended to have an interest in trains to spark a conversation and get initial information.

After an arrest was made, agents then pretended that their investigation began with the traffic stop, not with the SOD tip, the former agent said.

And I likely wouldn't be hired even if I pretended to ignore that feeling, as I don't feel any inclination to fake interviews any more.

He was convicted of burglary for stealing a wallet from a Myrtle Beach hotel room when he was 44 years old. According to prosecutors, he woke two vacationing golfers as he entered the room and stole a wallet, then pretended to be a security guard and ran away.

Faced with an abrupt and embarrassing end to the most expensive and sophisticated military exercise in US history, the Pentagon top brass simply pretended the whole thing had not happened.

If I were to write a book that pretended to teach laymen how to perform major surgery in their own kitchen, would it be reasonable for real surgeons to tell me to knock it the **** off, or should they "get involved" and attempt to provide me with constructive criticism?