I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.
At school I pretended I had a normal life, but I felt lonely all the time and different from everyone else. I never felt like I fit in, and I wasn't allowed to participate in after-school activities, go to sports events or parties or date boys. Many times I had to make up stories about why I couldn't do anything with my classmates.
I pretended I was living with a television family and there was no yelling at home and no one hit me.
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
This morning I was laughing at my cat who was running up the stairs and slipped, and pretended like it didn't happen.
Often I pretended to a cameraman to know less than I did. That way I got more cooperation.
It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
We pretended there was no problem with Agent Orange after Vietnam and later the Pentagon recanted, after untold suffering by veterans.
To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
The craziest thing I've ever done to get a guy's attention? I admit I stalked someone. I showed up at a restaurant where I knew the guy worked, and we were actually good friends and had lost touch, and I pretended that I didn't know he worked there.