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Example sentences for "pretendedly"

Lexicographically close words:
pretence; pretences; pretend; pretende; pretended; pretender; pretenders; pretendest; pretendeth; pretending
  1. If I snatch that Work out of their Hands, our Clergy ought to be glad, because what I do in it, is to the Honour of the Holy Jesus, and to turn those pretendedly miraculous Stories into divine Mysteries.

  2. She was the wife of Mithridates, and in anger toward him because she had been abandoned sent the garrison out pretendedly to collect supplies and let the Romans in, although her child was with .

  3. Something else that happened not long after these events proved still more clearly that while pretendedly he shunned the title, in reality he desired to assume it.

  4. All attacks they vigorously repulsed and made a truce, pretendedly for the purpose of arranging terms with Caesar, when he should come.

  5. By night the dictator had the knights occupy in advance the Capitol and the remaining points of vantage, and at dawn he sent to Mælius Gaius Servilius, master of the horse, to summon him pretendedly on some other errand.

  6. One day Mistress Bridget brought in a tall beggar woman, dumb, or pretendedly so, and apparently deaf.

  7. In troth even a Squadron of the Tatterdemallion Regiment; Some pretendedly blind, others their leggs tied up in a string.


  8. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pretendedly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.