Pretenses Sentence Examples

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  • Mr. Bohun considered the Whigs as a party of political swindlers, who had obtained power by false pretenses.

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  • Is it a " contrivance of human wisdom, " or of human craft to obtain money from a nation under specious pretenses?

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  • So unless you have that awkward conversation, (I really like you as a friend, but nothing more right now) then it wouldn't be right for you to go with him under false pretenses.

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