pretensein a sentence
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Nobody is fooled by her pretense.pretense = pretending
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The country maintains a pretense of a free press.pretense = false appearance
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Nobody seemed to find Scrimgeour's pretense that he did not know Harry's name convincing, (source)pretense = a false appearance or action to help one pretend
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He abandoned any pretense of even being my friend. (source)
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You dare keep up this pretense, after what you have done? (source)pretense = deception (pretending something is true)
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I give up the pretense of mystery, and I kiss her hand and bring it to my cheek and whisper in her ear. (source)pretense = a false appearance or action to help one pretend
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One minute she was talking to my father, complaining about the tenants upstairs, scheming how to evict them under the pretense that relatives from China were moving in. (source)pretense = something that helps one pretend
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...the horse broke into a kind of pretence of a trot for five or six paces and then subsided into a walk again. (source)pretence = action to pretend (give the appearance)unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use pretense.
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Burn right into my brain, burn through my pathetic teeth-clenching tough-guy pretensions. (source)pretensions = appearances or actions to help one pretendstandard suffix: The suffix "-sions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in discussions from discuss, explosions from explode, and revisions from revise.
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I have too fine a sense of fact to allow myself these juggleries, these pretences.† (source)unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it pretenses.
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All pretenses but living itself have long since vanished from the very atmosphere of this room. (source)
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You have been here under false pretenses.† (source)false pretenses = false appearances or actions to help one pretend
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I was sent here under false pretense.† (source)false pretense = a false appearance or action to help one pretend
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...and confess your pretense, for a quick confession will go easier with you. (source)pretense = deception (lying or pretending something is true)
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...the others made no pretence of offering... (source)pretence = action to pretend
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And as such, he comes into this court under a handicap, notwithstanding our pretensions that all are equal before the law. (source)pretensions = acting as though (pretending)
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