make believe

VERB
  1. represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like
    She makes like an actress
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How To Use make believe In A Sentence

  • The make believe world of predicate logic was a mere conservative extension of finitism.
  • Mrs. Powle made them with ceremonious respect, not make believe, and with a certain eagerness which welcomed a diversion from Eleanor's somewhat troublesome agitation. The Old Helmet
  • Sometimes when children play, they make believe they are grow - ups.
  • One spin of this DVD will make believers out of skeptics; music elitists be damned.
  • They should not get fooled by the "make believe" kind of stupefying, deceptive advertisements. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Greenspan may make believe all these were solved by the self-adjusting economy -- his extremist neo-classical model. The Meltdown Men: Greenspan, Rubin, and Prince to Testify before Financial Crisis Commission
  • It isn't no weddin'-ring, "says she," for I never was what you might call wed, "says she," but I got it from the Jew t 'make believe I was; for it didn't do nobody no hurt, an' it sort o 'pleased me. Quaint Courtships
  • A group of little girls slap makeup on a friend and make her the bride in a make believe wedding.
  • In their work, domestic objects floated through the apertures of a make believe house, and continued their journey into intergalactic space.
  • No!" shouted the other; and with a make believe of fierceness, Jack gave each what he called a topper on the head with one of the kiris he held. Off to the Wilds Being the Adventures of Two Brothers
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