However, I do not pretend to combat your reasons, much less would I draw you to town a moment sooner than it is convenient to you, though I shall never forget your offering it.
I do not pretend to be so indifferent, to have so little curiosity, as not to go and see the Duke of Newcastle frightened for his country--the only thing that never yet gave him a panic.
I do not pretend this to be the cause of my leaving Bath.
Not pretend I I know for whom I am gathering property, my dear.
Not pretend I I know for whom I am gathering blankets, my dear.
It is an extraordinary circumstance for which I do not pretend to account, that there is some peculiar quality in the water of this river, which corrodes wood, from the destructive effect it had on the paddles.
A tribe of them is even known at the upper establishments on the Saskatchiwine; and I do not pretend to ascertain how far they may follow the Rocky Mountains to the East.
To this query I do not pretendto give any satisfactory answer.
I do not pretend to explain in what way or degree they are combined; but certainly some of the facts do not seem to admit of explanation, except on this supposition.
Which of these opinions is the more correct I do not pretend to decide.
Do not pretend ignorance," replied Cassim, shewing him the piece of gold his wife had given him.
Do not pretend to make people live after your fashion, but follow ours.
Thus he thought long and sadly, in deep silence, and then gazed at that still living face, and then at last dared to ask himself whether he really longed for his father's death.
I do not pretend to account for what I find in Nature.
I have called this sense an instinct, but I do not pretend to know what it is.
They seem to like it--why, I donot pretend to understand.
There are, to be sure, occasional formal banquets, which do not pretend to be anything but formal.
We do not pretend to class them together; but as they all refer to the same periods of history, they find mention together in this notice.
The right honourable gentleman, the late President of the Board of Trade, has said that the Government does not pretend to act with perfect consistency as to this distinction between free labour and slave labour.
I do not pretend to give with accuracy the diction of those speeches which I did not myself correct within a week after they were delivered.
I do not pretend to know what are the intentions of gentlemen on this subject, but my wish is, to raise so considerable a revenue from imposts as to render it unnecessary to apply to any other mode.
I do not pretend to say that the measure was unnecessary, but it was rigorous to deprive them of 39-40ths of their claims.
There may be other duties which gentlemen may add, as I do not pretend to have perfectly enumerated them all.
I do not pretend to quote his words, as the book is not now by me.
I do not pretend to be any thing more than substantially correct in the above account (by which you will further see how I use the word substantially, about which we have had some dispute) i.
I do not pretend to tell what is absolutely true, but what I think is true.
I do not pretend to have fathomed the abyss, nor to have floated on outstretched wings level with the dim heights of thought.
While you do not pretend to say that there is no whisky sold in Port Townsend, you do insist upon it that I never saw any of you drunk.
I do not pretend to say that the appointment of inspector general was destitute of attractions in itself, but they were not of a pecuniary character.
I do not pretend to any personal acquaintance with English West African Governors.
I do not pretend to know other parts of the continent.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "not pretend" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
