NOUN
- imaginative intellectual play
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the enactment of a pretense
it was just pretend
ADJECTIVE
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imagined as in a play
the make-believe world of theater
play money
dangling their legs in the water to catch pretend fish
How To Use make-believe In A Sentence
- She used to play games of make-believe with her elder sister.
- We should integrate literacy into play only if it furthers a play theme in progress, and we should avoid literacy props that may distract children from make-believe.
- Collect any piece of clothing or accessory that could lend itself to make-believe.
- And, as always, to Mom and Dad and my family and friends for the unwavering support, and to Audrey, James, and Jonathan for putting up with my “spacey” moments and allowing me time to dwell in make-believe lands. Darkness Becomes Her
- This is when hundreds of communists and non-communists ‘confessed’ to make-believe crimes in show trials.
- He is in Billy's make-believe world of ambrosia the moment the curtain rises.
- And those of us who actually make up that make-believe market share?
- a kelpie is an imaginary water sprite, you know, and a pixy is a-- a-- why, a sort of make-believe fairy who lives in the water. Patty in Paris
- Children know how to imagine and make-believe, and how to play.
- I could play make-believe, pretend away all the pain.