Use of the word pretensions in a sentence example

pretensions

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His extravagant pretensions only served to excite ridicule. [Please select]

He made pretensions to literature and to materialism. [Please select]

You have pretensions, Madame. [Please select]

She laughed at Arobin's pretensions, and deplored Mrs. [Please select]

What pretensions, Madame. [Please select]

Considerant makes the most lofty pretensions to logic. [Please select]

If he had let persons alone, and had not ridiculed their opinions and pretensions, they would probably have let him alone. [Please select]

She promptly exposed his false pretensions and past villanies, and he left Boston and an army of cheated creditors. [Please select]

It was time this young girl with her absurd pretensions were given to understand the magnitude of the favour that Dr. [Please select]

He had the good sense to renounce all pretensions to Friesland, the fertile source of many preceding quarrels and sacrifices. [Please select]

London had impressed him as gloomy, dirty, and behind the times despite its pretensions; the country struck him as "the limit." [Please select]

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