Pretend in sentence

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Let's pretend it's the year 2030, and you're a parent.

We can pretend this is a Swiss army knife with different tools in it, and one of the tools is kind of like a magnifying glass or a GPS for our DNA, so it can home in on a certain spot.

Let's pretend we're back in that reality.

And though I don't really want to disparage at all the accomplishments of our species, as much as we wish it to be so and often pretend that it is, we are not the measure of all things.

If we don't do that, if we pretend there are just simple answers, we're leading everyone off a steep cliff.

We have to pretend.

Once I saw that we were not the ultimate arbiters of divine truth but flawed human beings, I couldn't pretend otherwise.

For just a second, let's pretend we could build a telescope the size of the Earth.

So here I show a sample reconstruction done using simulated data, when we pretend to point our telescopes to the black hole in the center of our galaxy.

So in our simulations, we pretend a black hole looks like astronomical non-black hole objects, as well as everyday images like the elephant in the center of our galaxy.

If you are the breadwinner in your relationship with a man, you have to pretend that you're not, especially in public, otherwise you will emasculate him.

I wasn't going to be able to pretend anymore as though everything was normal.

Paul joked that it's not like that "birds and bees" talk you have with your parents, where you all get it over with as quickly as possible, and then pretend it never happened.

And if we pretend that they aren't, or if we get overwhelmed by our fear, kids are never going to learn how and why to use them.

I don't pretend to understand what's going on here.

So I'm going to pretend to be a fly right now.

I can't go home to my family that I haven't seen in a week and pretend to be happy."

For my work, I invite people to play a game like we all used to as children when we pretend to be someone else and that process made us really happy.

But if a student ever brings something to my attention and I don't know the answer, I will always admit it and own it because I'm not going to pretend to be an expert in something that I don't have experience in or I'm not an authority on.

Now, I began with the war because it's the elephant in the room, and you can't pretend that there isn't about to be a war if you're talking about these issues.

And if you're not, you have to pretend to be slightly bored with everything.

And also, the sound: I discovered I can make my ThinkPad pretend it's a telephone.

I'll quickly play a short part of the air, and then I'm going to get into kind of a crazy tune that is very difficult to play when you're not warmed up, so, if I mess it up, pretend you like it anyway.

Girl 3: This is my pretend [unclear] one.

And then I was trying to pretend I was like a Valley girl.

In those days there was still countryside close to the city, farms, cornfields, cows; even not far from our building with its blurred brick and long shadowy hallway you could find tracts with hills and trees you could pretend were mountains and forests.

We can no longer pretend that we just speculate about politics, we need to look at this in a rigorous way.

Let's pretend there's a pandemic.

Six weeks they had all people in the banking industry pretend a pandemic was underway.

So depression is super common, yet in my experience, most folks don't want to talk to depressed people unless we pretend to be happy.

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