The rest of us keep pretending we're happy, or else just go numb.

What he did not want was to keep pretending.

"So then you're going to keep pretending to be crippled?"

I kept pretending, wishing the stuff tasted good, since the idea of eating had made me hungry.

He kept pretending that / was trying to sell to him.

While they listened, other men and women who had been with him for many years kept pretending to work.

"Why do you keep pretending you don't want to go out with Julie?"

However, the people around her keep pretending that nothing untoward has happened.

But she had to keep pretending, for the sake of the children.

I kept pretending to look out of the window and be unaware of what was going on behind me.