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Meanings of make believe in English
Portuguese
jogo de criança Loosley structure of play using imagination and sometimes role-play.
Synonyms
Examples for "pretend play"
Examples for "pretend play"
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This Young Wizard's Handbook is like a map for pretend play.
2
The building seems completely secondary to the pretend play experience.
3
This set of 20 tins comes in four sizes and would be great for a number of activities, including pretend play, stacking, dumping, and sorting.
4
Apps like Toca Tea Party and Toca Store encourage pretend play, and my daughter never gets enough of the hairstyling fun in Toca Hair Salon.
5
The kiddies were standing back shyly, patently interrupted in their pretended play of trundling the wheelbarrow and dragging the stick horses over the yard.
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Or role- play as if you're doing the thing you most desire now.
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I continued to play as if I didn't see them at all.
3
They began to play as if they had spent their lives together.
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Although sometimes they do play as if they're not recognisable to each other.
5
Krafft continued to play as if nothing had been said.
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The house bought on make-believe; the house that a penny dreadful built.
2
But he thought it was all make-believe, just a young girl's imagination.
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Her make-believe portraits of spam mail senders a case of the latter.
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Children, who love to play make-believe, have a natural inclination toward theatre.
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The fun, make-believe stories they shared still resonate with us decades later.
Usage of make believe in English
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The coordinate system is just make believe, you know, like Peter Pan.
2
This man will make believe he is doing it for the minister.
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Of course it was absurd to try to make believe any longer.
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She could make believe before the world, but not alone with Rudyard.
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Then I'll be the Ringmaster and make believe they are doing tricks.
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Folks who marry for money make believe love- Ihavewatched them- Iknow
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Violet will like to smell it-atleast, I make believe she will.'
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They could not make believe be alive until night should come again.
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Then I'll make believe I'm a tramp and come along the road.
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You must make believe you're glad she's going, same as I do.'
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Of course you'll make believe, but then-youneedn't; I'm here, any way!
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Then he was back on the floor, back in make believe.
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And then I make believe to whisper something in your ear.
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But when you think back on it, it still seems like make believe.
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I just make believe I'm one up here in the attic.
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They understood very well that this was acting, and make believe.