pretending

Let’s pretend that politicians wake up and don’t reopen restaurants and we avoid a big wave in March.

After a certain point, you can’t even pretend that you have control.

We should not pretend that the Facebook Oversight Board is more than a McGuffin designed to distract us from serious issues.

It’s terrible, and you constantly have to pretend you like it.

I wasn’t, but I pretended otherwise, just to see if Pennyroyal Station followed through on requests.

For Kirke it was being paid to pretend to play the oboe that heightened her affair with classical music.

The irony has thinned with the economy, perhaps: Who can really afford just to pretend to DIY today?

Sure, some parents would rather pretend their kids would never look at that stuff.

Quickly, the lines between their pretend feelings for each other and their real ones are blurred.

Or: “Jazz: Just pretend you like it, that's what everyone else is doing.”

A quite young child will, for example, pretend to do something, as to take an empty cup and carry out the semblance of drinking.

I believe I murmured something suitable, but it was absurd to pretend to be overjoyed at the news.

That my aspirations were satisfied I do not pretend, for ambition forbade any settled feeling of rest or content.

I've only known Indian rivers for five and twenty years, and I don't pretend to understand.

We shall have to pretend to do some gun practice, and drop a shell on to its surface to find out.