Significados de make a pretense em inglês

The Raines people make a pretense that the high license fee promotes temperance.

But you must come down and make a pretense of eating.

I make a pretense of sorting through the rest.

He didn't blink anymore, for example, and didn't make a pretense of breathing in before speaking.

Nels didn't get it-didn'teven make a pretense.

He began to make a pretense of searching for his ticket, when the policeman boarded the carriage.

Claire forced herself to make a pretense of eating, although her appetite had long since deserted her.

The Tory provincial assemblies were unable to get men enough together to make a pretense of doing business.

He knew how she had got the hat and dress, but he expected her to make a pretense.

But one must make a pretense.

He was way past the point of resisting, but at least he could make a pretense of a valiant struggle.

Do not make a pretense of gentility, nor parade the fact that you are a descendant of any notable family.

While they make a pretense of vaunting their Master, they consider it fine to have extraordinary views of their own.

Periodically the Government would make a pretense of subjecting them to an inquiry, but in no serious sense were they interfered with.

He gets up and says he will first kill the pigs and then the owner, but his relatives make a pretense at restraining him.

Devotees of false ideals clothe them too often with the tinsel of fond illusion, under which guise they make a pretense of worshiping them.