So I picked friends out of books and played let's-pretend games, acting out their characters before a mirror.

Bored people make up pretend games.

They liked the feel of playing with all that money, got such a buzz from it, that they divvied it up and played pretend games with it.

They explored the overhead treehouses and briefly joined in a let's-pretend game of space pirates.

Let Kitty play her pretend game, and we'd play ours.

She denies that Danger Mouse is a real secret agent and says that he and Penfold are just playing silly pretend games.

As little girls, we played endless 'pretend' games.

In this pretend game, the children would gather all the Fixers together in the library.

It reminded her of playing pretend games with her dolls as a child.

Now Pakistan will go crying to its new partner, China, and the pretend game will begin all over again with a different partner.