Sentences for Pretend, Sentences with Pretend Meaning and Synonym Words
pretend
Meanings;
- Speak and act so as to make it appear that something is the case when in fact it is not.(verb)
- Lay claim to (a quality or title)(verb)
- Not really what it is represented as being; used in a game or deception.(adjective)
| Verb(V1) | Past Tense(V2) | Past Participle(V3) |
| pretend | pretended | pretended |
| Verb-es(Ves) | Verb-ing(Ving) |
| pretends | pretending |
Synonyms
make as if, profess, affect, lay claim to, say that one owns, assert ownership of, formally request, imaginary, imagined, pretended, make-believe, made-up, fantasy, fantasized, fancied, dream, dreamed-up, unreal, fanciful, invented, fictitious, fictive, mythical, feigned, fake, mock, imitative, sham, simulated, artificial, ersatz, dummy, false, faux, spurious, bogus, counterfeit, fraudulent, forged, pseudo,
Example Sentences with pretend
- Dagmar knew there were worse things in this world than pretending to be a caring, demure woman. For instance, actually being a caring, demure woman.
- Perhaps it’s impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.
- Let’s pretend as if this never happened.
- Frank kindly pretended not to notice that Jessica had been crying.
- There is no pretending,” Jace said with absolute clarity.
- And that was that. You don’t get to rewind your life like a tape and splice it back together, pretending it never knotted and tore, when it did and you know it did.
- Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
- She’s officially pretending to dwell in the same place as the devil.
