How to use "pretend" in a sentence

Just one push, and then he can shout for the attendant and pretend to help but really just watch the monster go down into the loch

It's good if you get a camera out and pretend to take some snaps, you know?

Maybe he's still on the payroll of some spook shop, and maybe the whole plan was for him to pretend to retire and then get elected as a judge here in Vegas, so his bosses would have a friendly courtroom in town."

I'll call the night manager at the airport down there, pretend to be FBI, see what he can tell me."

Although he was struggling to cast off the seizure of claustrophobia that had gripped him, was trying to pretend that the organic-looking ceiling wasn't pressing low over his head and that only open sky hung above him instead of thousands of tons of concrete and steel rock, his own panic attack concerned him less than what was happening beyond the viewport.

He didn't try to pretend otherwise with himself, no matter what face he had to present to the world

They might pretend to close us down, but they won't

'If you have not committed a murder, I cannot see the reason to pretend you have.'

The coincidence was that the call was made at exactly the same time as the pretend shot from the wood

What nonsense to pretend there aren't!'