Sentence for pretensions | Use pretensions in a sentence

Pretensions example sentences. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use pretensions in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for pretensions.

• I may take it you resign pretensions then? (8)
• That other has withdrawn his pretensions. (10)
• I have no pretensions to your blue blood, or yellow. (10)
• He had heard of your pretensions; and our relationship, etc. (10)
• Evan controlled any denial of his pretensions to the hand of Miss Bonner. (10)
• The upstart pretensions of a young woman without family, connections, or fortune. (4)
• They were passing through a street superior to Hound Street in its pretensions to be called a slum. (8)
• At the same time I read the literature of the subject, and gave the pretensions of Macpherson an unquestioning faith. (9)
• After thus stating to you the vast pretensions of the ladies of Brookfield, it would be unfair to sketch their portraits. (10)
• Neither hot nor cold, the whole aspect of the dinner-table resisted and repelled the gaze, and made no pretensions to allure it. (10)
• Neither hot nor cold, the whole aspect of the dinner-table resisted and repelled the gaze, and made no pretensions to allure it. (22)
• Nursery Legitimists will be against him to a man; Republicans likewise, after a queer sniff at his pretensions, it is to be feared. (10)
• She had assumed the judicial seat upon the pretensions of several, and dismissed them to their limbo, after testifying against them. (10)
• I fancied there was a conspiracy to force me back from my pretensions by subjecting me to the contemplation of my bare self and actual condition. (10)
• Nataly shunned his name, with a superstitious dread lest any mention of him should renew pretensions that she hoped, and now supposed, were quite withdrawn. (10)
• Not Tolstoy, not Ibsen himself, has more profoundly and indignantly felt the injustice of civilization, or more insistently shown the falsity of its fundamental pretensions. (9)

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