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How to use pretenses in a sentence

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As he hovers between life and death, another patient, the hypochondriacal Sally Druse, checks herself in under false pretenses.
Were I lying, then I would simply bestow upon you some vague time in the future, so as to draw things out for pretenses and falsehoods.
After all its just a thrown together bunch of experiences with the narrowest of pretenses holding it all together.
This is music to play when you're at the cottage, when all your defenses and pretenses are left back in the city.
They'll put on the usual pretenses of being happy to be there, and all, but I know it's all a facade.
Many thought he had dragged the country into an unnecessary war on pretenses of a threat that did not exist.
In lucid prose, he shreds pretenses and pretexts and demands consistent, bright lines.
I am afraid that this could lead to conflicts at work or that I could be fired under false pretenses.
At the time, he advocated a reprimand, to ensure that taxpayers' money cannot be used deceitfully in advance under a false pretenses.
Slush funds, it was alleged, were used to pay for dinners, travel under false pretenses, and perks for high-ranking officials.
The fraudsters are looking to gain identity and banking information from the victim so bank accounts can be accessed through false pretenses.
In the end, it was found that students working under Protess had used false pretenses in trying to elicit witness statements.
Does she agree that the affordable Care Act was offered to the public under false pretenses?
Marriage has been reduced to the necessary pretenses of true love.
Hyper-tokenism embraces the widely accepted notion that we are all pretending, and further insinuates that pretenses can be more or less complete, more or less willed.
The children were reportedly separated from their families under false pretenses.
Why is the Minister of Justice allowing the debate about a woman's right to abortion to be re-opened via the back door and under false pretenses?
Erick Andrew Fenety is facing 4 related charges of false pretenses and failing to comply with conditions of undertaking.
We might never know how Mitchell fanned two icons of the game, or if she did it under false pretenses.
Individuals who have entered Canada under false pretenses could be subject to removal.
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Examples from Classical Literature
We all felt, I think, that Tom was some kind of an impostor, claiming the sympathies of the Club on false pretenses.
It stands out in contrast to American slapdash, puerile-minded pretenses at dictionary treatises on cowboy life.
From that instant, all pretenses were abandoned, Robert was a sleuthhound on a keen scent.
How could she be gentle, and kind, and tender, confronted with all these wretched subterfuges and false pretenses?
Every time you collect your salaries you ought to be arrested for getting money on false pretenses.
It is unfair, absolutely unfair, for me to come to you on false pretenses.
He convinced himself of her false pretenses and punished her accordingly.
Under various pretenses I am questioned about what I have suffered in the past, and what plans of life I have formed for the future.
Projects of usurpation cannot be masked under pretenses so likely to escape the penetration of select bodies of men, as of the people at large.
In most cases they contain links to fake login pages, which then ask under false pretenses for confidential customer data.
And last week it emerged that Demontagnac has also mastered the art of getting money under false pretenses a long time after the payments should have stopped.
Judge Rory McCabe is presiding over the case of former doctor Paschal Carmody, 60, who is charged with obtaining more than EUR80,000 by false pretenses.
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