What the system pretends to be is a picture of the great universe of God.
Anyone whopretends to be neutral writes himself down here as a fool and a sham.
He pretends to find it full of psychological subtleties.
And if a girl pretends hard enough it sometimes comes true.
Assuredly not the men of whom, with the mendacious arrogance which has become to it a second nature, it now pretends to be the appointed spokesman.
After this declaration, if Döllinger still pretends that his friends in Holland are not Jansenists, he ought to maintain that neither Quesnel nor Jansenius ever were.
Let us here take notice that "modern thought" ignores final principles altogether, and pretends that arguments from design have no value in science.
She pretends to cling to her treasures only to delude him into the belief that she still clings to life, and her heroic imposture is successful.
He does not threaten with eternal torments those who resist his arguments; he has not credit enough to promise heaven to such as yield to them; he pretends neither to constrain, nor to seduce those who do not think as he does.
Amongst the Takilis or Carrier Indians of North-West America, when a corpse is burned the priest pretends to catch the soul of the deceased in his hands, which he closes with many gesticulations.
The robber hears him coming; squats down on the ground, takes off his hat, and pretends to be covering with it a bird or a falcon, which wishes to escape.
This only shews, that revelation is by the common consent of mankind the very best foundation of religion; and therefore every imposter pretends to it.
I hate when a young person pretends to understand whatever passes, while his betters are obliged to confess that it is all a mystery to them.
It's a good thing," he says, "when a man knows what he pretends to know.
Servius comes forth with the trabea and lictors, and seating himself on the king's throne, decides some cases, with respect to others pretends that he will consult the king.
So that this author cannot despair so much of the commonwealth, without this American and Irish revenue, as he pretends to do.
If an attempt be made upon one of this corps, immediately he flies to sanctuary, and pretends to the most inviolable of all promises.
So far as I know, the "Summer land" has no metes and bounds, and no one pretends to know exactly or inexactly where it is.
I have a thousand times more regard for Mazzini, for Garibaldi, for Cavour, than I have for any gentleman who pretends to be the representative of God.
The actor is true to art, and honestly pretends to be what he is not.
Christianity pretends to be not only the truth, but, so far as religion is concerned, the whole truth.
Nobody deliberatelypretends to be bad, but the idea of his being president of the Humane Society is simply preposterous.
Christianity pretends to give a history of religion and a prophecy of destiny.
These powers must be vested in Congress; for nobody pretends to wish to have them vested in any other body of men.
The Juggler pretends to see all this, and more, in his bowl of water: divination by coffee-grounds is a trifle to it.
He pretends to foretell off-hand, and actually does so, when he is already prepared by his knowledge, cunning, or natural penetration.
I fear,” said he, “that whoever by the old causes of motion pretends to improvements within the last century does betray his knowledge and judgment.
We pretend to outsiders, but Jessamy pretends consistently, even to herself, and that's why it is so much better pretense.
The idea of a girl who pretends to be a lady, a Wyndham, working for a horrible newspaper!
She pretends she makes over her dresses because she likes to, and regards the dress when it is done as such a bit of elegance that she hypnotizes others into thinking it is elegant.
The most daring among them even pretends to be no more than a "branch" of the catholic church.
But it is confessed that none of those persons (whose testimony no one pretends to give) had obtained any intelligible messages from another world.
But it pretends to absolute truthfulness and a reverent regard for justice.
We mean simply that his moral plummet does not sink at all, and that when he pretends to drop it he is simply dabbling in the relatively very shallow pool of the picturesque.
It is monstrous because it pretends to persuade the soul while it slights the intellect; because it pretends to gratify the feelings while it outrages the taste.
Do not suppose that it for this reason pretends to ignore or to undervalue consequences; on the contrary, it is because it knows that consequences are inevitable that it leaves them alone.
An interesting character, indeed, who facetiously pretends to "look down upon the world from the sublime heights of applied cynicism.
He should bethink himself of death, of "meeting his Maker," since he pretends to believe in religion.
Noisily he pretends to return to the desk "in front," quietly steals into the niche of a cell door, and stands motionless, alertly listening.
I resent the presumption of "science" that pretends to evolve the intricate convolutions of a living human brain out of the shape of a digit cut from a dead hand, and labels it "criminal type.
He pretends to be frightened by the infection, and prevails upon the physician to examine him.
The prisoner fusses about, pretends to move the empty tubs out of the way, and then quickly snatches a pan of soup, and passes it to the guard.
He pretends to show the man some fancy work made by the inmates, all the while drawing him closer to my door, with surreptitious nods at me.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pretends" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
