Sample Sentences for
pretense
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    Jemmy made the pretense of blazing up with impatience.  (source)
    pretense = an appearance to help one pretend
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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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    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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    ...the others made no pretence of offering...  (source)
    pretence = action to pretend
    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 pretend
    standard 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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    And yet in a way," she had confessed to Fanny, "I feel as though I were getting something on false 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)
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    I was sent here under false pretense.†  (source)
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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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    And she had to go down to tea and pretend that there was nothing the matter. The pretence was bravely made, but it wasn't very successful.  (source)
    pretence = an appearance to help one 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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