Examples of pretend

• She'll pretend that she hasn't seen us - you watch.

• Just for a laugh, I pretended that I'd forgotten it was his birthday.

• He isn't really angry - he's just pretending.

• She sidled past him, pretending that she had not seen him.

• He even tried to pretend he was a film star's son - can you believe it?

• Furthermore, children manifested a marked increase in pretend-play with toy objects that were replicas of real objects specifically designed to stand for other objects.

• There is no point in pretending that buyer-seller relationships are ships passing in the night, always a short-term swap.

• Both utterances are situated in a pretend frame.

• So she hurried on, pretending she hadn't seen anything.

• It does not pretend to replace more exhaustive volumes, but does provide all the information needed for many soil analyses and their interpretation.

• I do not pretend to have answered all criticisms, or even to have understood every objection suggested to me.

• Governments and ruling parties which pretended to be warm and friendly turned out to be ruthless and destructive.

• If it is optimal to pretend to be tough, the agent will do all the pretending necessary.

• The real-life disciplinary episode occurred two days before the pretend play episode.

• You could never pretend to be the new kid on the block, never have that excuse or opportunity.

• Infants with autism : an investigation of empathy, pretend play, joint attention, and imitation.

• These metaphysical remnants, however, neither express nor pretend to offer any metaphysical claims apart from the normative context.

• I'm sure some of them are just pretending they're straight to their friends, but it's become hard to tell them all apart.

• Otherwise, we forever run the risk of remaining detached and of pretending that we can occupy a position entirely outside ideological discourse.

• This is, however, not an excuse for being careless about facts and for acting politically while pretending objectivity.