How to use "pretending" in a sentence

He returned the next morning and sat on a bench all day, pretending to read a book, not daring to go near the bench where the girl and her father were sitting

'Do you remember the little inn in Montfermeil eight years ago? You took away our Cosette, do you remember? Wearing that old yellow coat, pretending you were a tramp! Well, now you're going to learn that you can't make things right by just bringing a few hospital blankets! You're the cause of all my troubles

Then, pretending to know them well, she asked her victims rude questions in her loud American voice.

Was she really mad, or was she pretending again? 'Tell me everything, Helene,' I said

'Stone was pretending to be very interested in it.'

'It reminds me of the man who went round the village pretending to be the Gas Inspector

At five-thirty, he telephoned the vicar from the North Lodge, pretending he was the wife of a dying man.