PRETENCE in a Sentence
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38 example sentences for PRETENCE, such as:
1. I will make no such pretence to you.
2. But among the common people there was no pretence.
3. She made absolutely no pretence of being interested.
4. I make no pretence to being an expert on the subject.
5. Welland made a pretence of writing a note in his pad.
2. But among the common people there was no pretence.
3. She made absolutely no pretence of being interested.
4. I make no pretence to being an expert on the subject.
5. Welland made a pretence of writing a note in his pad.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of PRETENCE
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pretence
n. pretending with intention to deceive
n. imaginative intellectual play
Classic Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1 He had previously communicated his plan to the former, who aided the deceit by quitting his house, under the pretence of a journey and concealed himself, with his daughter, in an obscure part of Paris.
2 I made a foolish pretence of not at first recognizing it, and then told her.
3 It was a very lame pretence on both sides; the lamer, because we both went into the coffee-room, where he had just finished his breakfast, and where I ordered mine.
4 Although it required an effort to leave Miss Mills, I fell rather willingly into my aunt's pretence, as a means of enabling me to pass a few tranquil hours with Agnes.
5 He received me in his usual fawning way, and pretended not to have heard of my arrival from Mr. Micawber; a pretence I took the liberty of disbelieving.
6 I turned him hastily on some pretence, and held him in conversation until it was gone.
7 I occasionally made a pretence of wanting a page or two of manuscript copied.
8 He drew his sleeve across his face, without any pretence of concealing why; and then cleared his voice.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 51. THE BEGINNING OF A LONGER JOURNEY
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 51. THE BEGINNING OF A LONGER JOURNEY
9 Mr. Micawber was so very much struck by this happy rounding off with a quotation, that he indulged himself, and us, with a second reading of the sentence, under pretence of having lost his place.
10 I will make no such pretence to you.
11 I never made a pretence to him or you that I loved him.
12 Louisa understood the loving pretence, and her heart smote her.
13 Moreover, we are knights and soldiers as well as men of religion, and shame it were to us upon any pretence, to refuse proffered combat.
14 But among the common people there was no pretence.
15 The conclusion was scarcely intelligible from increasing fright, for she found that Mr. Crawford, under pretence of receiving the note, was coming towards her.
Example Sentence:
1 She made absolutely no pretence of being interested.
2 If you want a pretence to whip a dog, say that he ate the frying-pam.
3 I make no pretence to being an expert on the subject.
4 Welland made a pretence of writing a note in his pad.
5 The theory made the greatest pretence of having a scientific foundation.
6 And so, under pretence of softening the previous outrage, of stroking and soothing me into placidity, you stick a sly penknife under my ear!