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"Pretext" in a Sentence (19 examples)
He often uses the slightest thing as a pretext for a fight with anybody.
He made up a pretext for a fight with me.
He came to my house on the pretext of seeing me.
He delayed payment on some pretext or other.
He did not come on the pretext of sickness.
... reason? What you're looking for is a pretext, isn't it?
The Japanese fishing fleet catches more than 1000 whales per year on the pretext of scientific research.
If you calmly look at the reply you sent to an email, you'll find that it'll have "you" all over it. While you may use the pretext that you're just working with whatever information the addressee gave you, in the end it's just all about yourself. This is wrong. Let's be a little more careful, shall we?
What have we become as a society when we need alcohol to enjoy ourselves? It has become a pretext for outlandish behaviour and plain old debauchery.
Whereas before I had no pretext on which to give an account of my life, now I have got one.
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The reporter called the company on the pretext of trying to resolve a consumer complaint.
[T]hey would ſay [...] that I had quarrell'd / My brother purpoſely, thereby to finde / An apt pretext, to baniſh them my houſe.
"After all," said the Chevalier, "these portraits—Madame de I'Hôpital's fortune-telling—the pleasure we take in a lover or a physician—may all be referred to the same cause,—we do so enjoy talking about ourselves; and yet we feel some sort of excuse necessary. It must be admitted, that we are ready in pretexts."
On every kind of pretext she would run away from work [...]
The smallest incidents were to serve as pretexts for demonstrations of force and for demands for indemnities and reparations which increased China's subjection.
When that metaphor proves untenable, he switches to insisting that women are like beer but that’s mainly as a pretext to drink until he passes out in a father-son bonding haze.
The spy obtained his phone records using possibly-illegal pretexting methods.
[…] the something in the air of these establishments; the vibration of the vast, strange life of the town; the influence of the types, the performers, concocting their messages; the little prompt Paris women arranging, pretexting goodness knew what, driving the dreadful needle-pointed public pen at the dreadful sand-strewn public table[…]
Not all the surviving veteran chiefs would actually fight. Some remained nominally in the resistance but in practice delayed at their bases, pretexting a lack of ammunition for their uncertain inertia.
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