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Example sentences for "making believe"

  • Mr. George Godolphin was searching for certain bonds: or, making believe to search for them.

  • But these avowals are not made in social life, and Charlotte and Maria observed studied courtesy, making believe to be mutually unconscious: knowing all the time that the consciousness existed in a remarkable degree.

  • I can't quite come to the bottom of it," returned old Tamlyn, making believe to be confidential.

  • Then Mina tripped lightly over the grass and stole in at the glass-doors of the garden-room, while the captain stalked round to the front-entrance and boldly rang, making believe he had only then arrived.

  • Mr. Brown, in fun, making believe he didn't believe this.

  • After Splash had had a little rest the actor put him through the trick again, and Bunny and Sue laughed as they saw their dog swinging about the yard, making believe to chase a tramp.

  • Evan remained where he was, making believe to be absorbed in his book, and letting his eyes rise from time to time as if in contemplation.

  • The youth wasted no further time in making believe to read his books.

  • But why should he go to the trouble of making believe that he has not?

  • This may be defined, not very accurately, as the power of making believe, a factor which sociologists have scarcely appreciated as yet.

  • Before the period of the mixed community this power of idealization, of "making believe," had wrought its greatest effects, but it still has full course and power without the highest direction.

  • Some delay in getting off was caused by our low comedian, who twice, making believe to miss his footing, slid down again into the arms of the stolid door-keeper.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another hymn; carrying the; essential condition; family group; humbled himself; inter alia; little way; making believe; making body; making fire; making gold; making good; making great; making himself; making love; making machine; making money; making power; making ready; making sure; making treaties; neighbouring country; right away; school days; strange sense; twenty thousand