Examples of 'pretence' in a sentence pretence
- Eyebrows were often raised when a player would disappear suddenly from the tour, sometimes under false pretence. ...
- This call for honesty, the dropping of macho pretence, is central. ...
- But I'm abandoning the pretence.
How do you use Pretence?
the act of giving a false appearance.
- If you want a pretence to whip a dog, say that he ate the frying-pam.
- It was all an elaborate pretence.
- He made no pretence of great musical knowledge.
- Welland made a pretence of writing a note in his pad.
- She was unable to keep up the pretence that she loved him.
How do you use Pretence in a sentence?
Pretence sentence example
- As a rule they make no real pretence of leading a religious life. ...
- The following classification is simple and convenient; the list of alkaloids makes no pretence at being exhaustive.
