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"Feign" in a Sentence (17 examples)
Especially do not feign affection.
It's futile to feign illness.
How could I feign surprise?
I tried to feign indifference.
She tried to feign indifference.
Tom tried to feign indifference.
I will feign indifference.
Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.
"Broken by war, long baffled by the force / of fate, as fortune and their hopes decline, / the Danaan leaders build a monstrous horse, / huge as a hill, by Pallas' craft divine, / and cleft fir-timbers in the ribs entwine. / They feign it vowed for their return, so goes / the tale."
"Not so Achilles, whom thy lying tongue / would feign thy father; like a foeman brave, / he scorned a suppliant's rights and trust to wrong, / and sent me home in safety, – ay, and gave / my Hector's lifeless body to the grave."
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The pupil feigned sickness on the day of his exam.
They feigned her signature on the cheque.
[T]he truest poetry is the most feigning, and lovers are given to poetry, and what they swear in poetry may be said as lovers they do feign.
She had not been much of a dissembler, until now her loneliness taught her to feign.
He feigned that he had gone home at the appointed time.
Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.
Cahill was beaten far too easily for Miller's goal, although the striker deserves the credit for the way he controlled Alan Hutton's right-wing delivery, with his back to goal, feigned to his left then went the other way and pinged a splendid left-foot shot into Hart's bottom right-hand corner.
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