Categories: Grammar

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.