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How to use pretences in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word pretences? Here are some examples.

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The nuances, exaggerations and pretences of conversation can be taken literally.
Fights were sometimes orchestrated under false pretences, so that inmates could swipe and pilfer a target person's store items.
If his case doesn't justify asylum, then there are millions of undeserving asylum seekers living here under false pretences.
The charges put to the accused yesterday include the falsification of accounts, acquiring money under false pretences and failing to keep records.
In July, 1968, he appeared in court for bigamy, larceny and false pretences, with 116 offences considered, and was sentenced to two years jail, suspended for three years.
While I'm pleased about that, I now realise that it was wrong to lure them here under false pretences by losing my temper and shouting the odds all over the place.
But Baptists would readminister the rite to every one who had received it on false pretences, or to whom it had been involuntarily administered.
All pretences to the contrary are nothing but cant and cheat, flam and delusion.
In trickery, evasion, procrastination, spoliation, botheration, under false pretences of all sorts, there are influences that can never come to good.
Examples from Classical Literature
He tries no pretences with a view to her reinstatement, even on a par with himself.
The apter he is to smatter, the slower he is in making any advance in his pretences.
Such a person they endeavour to delude with various pretences.
All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.
In her strong-minded way she had scorned pretences, had gone to her writing which interested her immensely.
He as good as told him that he'd come out under false pretences, that the whole affair was a swindle and that the road could not be made.
What were we to do with the frail little creature we had lured back to life by false pretences?
That was what made for me its philosophical pretences so unpardonable.
He was planning to take advantage of the Hales' sympathy to obtain money from them on false pretences.
He feels that we suspect him of rusticating in bed under false pretences.
You know, I came out to this bally country on false pretences, as it were.
Of all the living creatures upon land and sea, it is ships alone that cannot be taken in by barren pretences, that will not put up with bad art from their masters.
Then we are here on false pretences, and we stay here no longer,' he said.
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