How to Use "pretense" with Example Sentences

1. But when lawyers measure themselves against the highest-paid ceos or the richest americans , it 's a pretense . "
2. It 's not a good pretense .
3. Sir , look at this pretense of want of room .
4. Jealousy , that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive .
5. One possibility is that he wants to use a temporary crisis as a pretense for engineering a permanent increase in the size and scope of the government .