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How to use pretense in a sentence

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He oozes confidence in his ability to please, without any of the boastful pretense that a human with his charms would inevitably have.
It appears that the communicative competence is better displayed when children engage in pretense situations.
It seems too intellectual to keep up any blusterous pretense to the contrary.
His brand of barroom rock 'n' blues caught on huge at a time when punk, new wave and metal were stripping down the pretense of prog rock.
The former live their lives within a rigid moralism and behavioral codes and have a supercilious social pretense.
The men in this neighborhood made no pretense about who they thought were beddable.
The weather seemed to be a pretense for a storm, windy and hinting toward a tempest.
I ordered him to scram, under the pretense of changing into warmer clothes.
With a deftness of touch reminiscent of Chaucer, Map achieves a high degree of realism through the pretense of reporting direct speech.
Besides, he has no tolerance for the pomp, pageantry and pretense of the whole show.
The real scandal is that a newspaper that once had some pretense to quality now prints ignorant drivel like this.
There is no pretense, no artifice, no meaning, other than what you carry out after you've wiped the fiftieth tear of laughter out of your eye.
The main reason I feel this is that when you date, pretense and airs are, well, up in the air.
Increasingly, government representatives are jettisoning any pretense of opposition to war.
I'm all for good satire, the sharp and perceptive deflating of pretense, pompousness or deceit.
In 1675 Maryland abandoned the pretense of a militia and shifted to reliance on paid rangers, though they rarely called upon them.
Frighteningly, some conservative commentators are now dropping any pretense that this is not the case.
Was he also taking a sly dig at the Canadian pretense that we don't engage in American dreaming?
In a way it's a story of letting go of expectations and pretense, of breaking down facades and accepting what's beneath as beautiful.
I envied the animals for their absolute lack of pretense and their unwillingness to intellectualize.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Her eyes blazed with a fire that seemed about to singe pretense from his soul.
A remark which inflamed Cooper, in spite of chipper's pretense that he did not hear it.
He folded his arms, as though to fortify himself behind a pretense of indifferency.
She had been convicted of blackmail, and she made no pretense even of innocence.
He's consolidating his position, possibly on the pretense that plots have been discovered.
He spoke with a doubtful pretense of timidity, and looked at her quizzically.
There was only the most meagre pretense at greeting when these men came face to face.
But except for the felicitous pretense of deafness I had not tried to pretend anything.
The people will see beneath the false pretense the bare, naked facts.
The church should care that it is operating unjustly, under false pretense, and counter to its own theology of ordination.
The soldiers then saw him stretch his limbs, little by little, and under the pretense of much heat throw off the Scotch plaid which covered him.
In parting with the twins Aunt Patsy did attempt a good-night with a gay pretense of hope and cheer in it, but broke down without finishing.
The pretense at bookkeeping, unreal bookkeeping, he abandoned.
Under pretense of seeing after their comfort, Conant crawled after them.
This pretense, this sleazy imitation of your old room is wrong.
The Church makes no pretense of infallibility in statesmanship.
The jailor was making a feeble pretense of protecting his prisoners.
If Burma's rulers expect to rehabilitate their image abroad with this pretense of magnanimity, they should be disabused of that view.
Hastily he threw on the packs, making no pretense at neat packing.
Most of the false pretense of the West is more subtle than importing the London Bridge or creating a rainforest in a Las Vegas hotel.
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