Examples of 'pretender' in a sentence

Meaning of "pretender"

Pretender (noun): A person who claims or aspires to a particular position or status, often without legitimacy
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  • One who pretends.
  • One who intends or purposes.
  • One who puts forth a claim, or who aspires to or aims at something; a claimant, candidate, or aspirant; now, one who makes baseless pretensions.
  • A claimant to a throne or the office of a ruler; orig. in a neutral sense, but now always applied to a claimant who is held to have no just title.

How to use "pretender" in a sentence

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Now the pretender is wracked with guilt.
They want to launch this man as a pretender.
We could not accept a pretender board so to speak.
The pretender sees no one but himself.
The current king is a pretender to the throne.
I got my hands on one to determine if it was a contender or pretender.
But the other pretender will string it.
And gadnuk attacks with merciful pretender.
To cast out the pretender to the throne.
Four past presidents and one pretender.
Any other is a pretender and a false god.
She could have detected a brazen pretender.
Better than the pretender you hold.
No pretender must have his place in the soul.
I suspected we had a pretender in our midst.

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A mere pretender angling for my throne.
You are nothing but a pretender to the throne.
Pretender is introduced as one of the chief.
Our young pretender has triumphed.
I would rather die than wed this pretender.
Find this pretender to my throne and bring him to me.
I will not bow to this pretender.
How did this pretender to the throne.
You must stop the pretender.
I have the pretender in safe custody.
No luck with the public pretender.
The pretender has the bloodline show the gift.
A wicked servant is a pretender to the throne.
Oh but remember he is just a good pretender.
And you sit beside this pretender and chastise me.
They would never follow this aged pretender.
Just another pretender who thought they could take me on.
Compromising your objectivity towards the pretender project.
Not a pretender to the throne.
Also we can not forget this pretender is more.
Pretender disable the alarm.
Calls him the pretender king.
Without the fruit it is a worthless pretender.
To put an illegitimate pretender on the throne.
It has never known anything but it is a great pretender.
Ugrin placed the young pretender under his guardianship.
Do not be robbed by the great pretender.
You are a pretender to the throne.
The contender and the pretender.
I do so as a pretender to the elite club.
Pretender to the throne was assassinated.
Brett was a great pretender to poetry.
He thought it was appropriate cos he was a pretender.
Calling me a pretender to the blade.
Not even a convincing pretender.

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