How to Use pretender in a Sentence

pretender

noun

• That could be enough to ward off pretenders to the throne.
  — Anousha Sakoui, Bloomberg.com, 5 May 2017
• That's the record in this league against this guy who is a pretender.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 5 Dec. 2020
• The day that love changed the minds of pretenders while chasing the clouds away.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2017
• Which teams at the bottom of the Top 25 are pretenders?
  — C.j. Doon, baltimoresun.com, 10 Oct. 2019
• Of those four, the Colts are deemed more of a pretender than the others.
  — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Nov. 2020
• Making the plays to win in the clutch separates the top teams from the pretenders.
  — oregonlive, 27 Oct. 2019
• Over the past decades, there have been other contenders and pretenders: the yen, the mark, the euro.
  — Brook Larmer, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2017
• The pretenders, the arrivistes, the people who go to be Seen.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 26 Oct. 2017
• To go along with the pretender aesthetic, a lot of the parts under the glass are fake.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 14 July 2023
• The American was a brash, up and coming pretender to the crown.
  — Don Maines, Houston Chronicle, 21 Feb. 2018
• But many pretender have flamed out soon enough in recent years.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 29 Oct. 2021
• Which Sweet 16 teams are contenders or just pretenders?
  — USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2018
• Nearly 10% into the season, the Hawks look more like a pretender than a contender.
  — Jimmy Greenfield, chicagotribune.com, 26 Oct. 2019
• A 162-game schedule will unmask the anomalies, humble the overmatched and weed out the pretenders.
  — John Shipley, Twin Cities, 7 Apr. 2017
• Against this onslaught of pretenders, the Prius’s grip on the throne has become tenuous.
  — Annie White, Car and Driver, 10 July 2017
• On September 21, love was changing the minds of pretenders while chasing the clouds away.
  — Aja Romano, Vox, 21 Sep. 2018
• Let’s look at the six major Oscar categories and break down the contenders from the pretenders.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2020
• Notre Dame was exposed as a pretender, at least in relation to the Playoff.
  — George Schroeder, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2019
• The Red Sox have willingly turned themselves into a pretender to save a few bucks.
  — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Feb. 2020
• Once again the Lakers are poised to be contenders and the pretenders are packing for Inglewood.
  — latimes.com, 30 June 2017
• The Mendoza line of contender/pretender is often seen as five games out of a playoff spot at the trade deadline.
  — kansascity, 28 Mar. 2018
• That trait is the biggest reason the Trailblazers went from a pretender to champion over the last three months.
  — Eric Sondheimer, latimes.com, 25 Mar. 2018
• But over the course of six months and multiple meetings, the pretenders are amply exposed.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 July 2019
• Balans, the first British pretender, went on sale earlier this year.
  — 1843, 27 Sep. 2019
• A true playoff contender, not a playoff pretender, wouldn’t do that.
  — Billy Witz, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2016
• Are the Arizona Cardinals a contender or a pretender in 2021?
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 22 Sep. 2021
• The Wall Street Journal unmasked this great pretender on Thursday.
  — Kenzie Bryant, Vanities, 1 June 2018
• His rude personal style ruffles the feathers of many who see him as a pretender or a huckster.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 30 May 2017
• Catherine set in motion a devious plan to lure the pretender princess to Russia.
  — National Geographic, 6 Aug. 2019
• For a single day, Prigozhin became a pretender to the throne in Moscow—the embodiment of the hopes, expectations, and grievances of millions of people.
  — Vladislav Zubok, Foreign Affairs, 28 June 2023

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2024