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• Their pretensions are on a par.From the entry on a par
• The cleaning lady turns out to be a self-assured, modelly looking Ukrainian who destroys Trish’s fragile pretensions.2009 March 2, Janet Maslin, “Having It All, Including Many Failings”, in New York Times. From the entry modelly
• His presence, after all, disturbs our arrogant pretensions and suitheistic fantasies.2008, James Patrick Holding, Shattering the Christ Myth, page 334. From the entry suitheistic
• They only seem endlike because they reflect a posturing of false pretensions and surrogate determinances.2008, Craig Hovey, To share in the body. From the entry endlike
• He doesn't have any false pretensions, he's straightforward, no fantasticizing, but full of mood.1995, Theodor Fontane, William L. Zwiebel, The Stechlin, page 253. From the entry fantasticize
• To "bust on" someone is "to deflate their pretensions by means of aggressive verbal mockery." Mr.1989 April 9, “Campus Life: Rutgers Anthropologist Examines Sex Life On the Raritan”, in New York Times, retrieved 16 Feb 2018. From the entry bust on
• The lack of pretension, mentioned above, is present in the music, also.1955, Donald Belden Muir, John Dryden's Albion and Albanius and King Arthur: An Analysis of Operatic Form, page 91. From the entry pedantics
• Though these notes have no pretensions to being a comprehensive catalogue, we cannot pass Euston by.1941 August, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The English Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 358. From the entry pass by
• As stage documents the scenari are circumstantial and businesslike, they make no pretensions towards literary style.1934, K[athleen] M[arguerite] Lea, “Introduction, Description of a Typical Performance”, in Italian Popular Comedy: A Study in the…. From the entry scenari
• No fakery or false pretensions existed on John’s stage.2023, David R. Denny, Meditations from the Classics: Ancient Voices for Modern Listeners, Collective Ink, page 157. From the entry humblebrag
• However, I have no pretensions to being either an expert cameraperson or editor: a bit of a Jill-of-all-trades, you might say.2011, Jenny Devitt, in Wildlife Film-making: Looking to the Future (ed. Piers Warren), Wildeye (2011), page 83. From the entry jill-of-all-trades
• Santogold, from Brooklyn, may be mocking scene pretensions, defending the creative impulse or both in her single, “L.E.S.2008 April 20, Jon Pareles, “Rasps, Boops, Snark and Sartre”, in New York Times. From the entry boop
• Those two cities that are so cheek to jowl, separated only by a puddle of water and Frisco's pretensions, that they are really one city.2014, Mike Royko, Mike Royko: The Chicago Tribune Collection 1984-1997. From the entry cheek to jowl
• Gertrude Stein, who might, in her time, have been considered a bit of a bossyboots herself, suggested that semicolons were simply commas with pretensions.2008, Jennifer DeVere Brody, Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play. From the entry bossyboots
• The fall is indeed the archetypal bathetic motion, a sudden, surprising downward rush degrading the pretensions of posture and man's bipedal pride.1995, Rupert D. V. Glasgow, Madness, Masks, and Laughter: An Essay on Comedy, page 214. From the entry bathetic
• It is an art which topples greatness, undermines pretension and punishes pride by revealing the low in the pretendedly high, the filth in the pure, the folly in reason.2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Ch.9, at p.148. From the entry satire
• Oh, there are gestures, and the competition to include the writing of a handful of 'approved' Black British women writers in anthologies with pretensions to right-onness is fierce.1988, Shabnam Grewal, Charting the journey: writings by black and Third World women. From the entry right-onness
• The boards of trade and chambers of commerce were largely made up of men who, while assuming the most vaniloquent pretensions, were themselves malodorous with fraud.1910, Gustavus Myers, History of the great American fortunes. From the entry vaniloquent
• The council at first decided against the pretensions of Arles, but finally compromised by dividing the Viennese province into two parts, of which the southern was to depend on Arles.1923, John Bagnell Bury, History of the Later Roman Empire, page 363. From the entry Viennese

Meaning of pretension

1. noun A claim or aspiration to a particular status or quality.
2. noun Pretentiousness.
3. verb To apply tension to an object before some other event or process.

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How do you use pretension in a sentence?

Pretension is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Their pretensions are on a par.”

What is a short sentence with pretension?

“Their pretensions are on a par.”

What does pretension mean?

Pretension means a claim or aspiration to a particular status or quality.