Sentences with 'pretense'
Example sentences and phrases with the word pretense and other words derived from it.
• « The final event that removed any pretense that the League was anything other than an Athenian empire was the failure of a naval expedition sent in 460 BC by Athens to aid an Egyptian revolt against the Persians. »
• « Sartre and Beauvoir called this "bad faith", the pretense that individual decisions are dictated by an imaginary higher power or higher calling. »