try to pretend

Frequency: 8.518.5 per million words

To make an effort to create a false appearance or belief.

pretendVERB + VERB

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try to

Examples (10)

  • He tried to pretend everything was fine.
  • She's just trying to pretend she didn't hear you.
  • Why do you always try to pretend you're not interested?
  • They tried to pretend they hadn't seen anything.
  • It's hard to try to pretend when you're clearly upset.
  • Don't even try to pretend you don't know about this.
  • We should try to pretend this never happened.
  • I will try to pretend I didn't see that, for your sake.
  • He was trying to pretend he was asleep.
  • She'll try to pretend she's happy, but I know she's not.