Example Sentences

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Since July, say prosecutors, Williams had been feigning pregnancy and a delivery date that coincided with Evans'.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then Godfrey really opened his eyes; hitherto he had been feigning to be still in trance, but thought it wisest to say nothing.

From Love Eternal by Haggard, Henry Rider

She had been certain then, and still was certain that he had been feigning sleep, that he had been listening to the talk carried on between her uncle and Carrington.

From The Ranchman by Seltzer, Charles Alden

After an hour of cold waiting John crept out, grunting and limping, for he had been feigning lameness, looked quickly round, and seeing no one, mounted nimbly the stairs to the deck.

From North-Pole Voyages by Mudge, Zachariah Atwell

He had been feigning sleep, and he crept after me.

From Jacqueline of Golden River by Coleman, Ralph P. (Ralph Pallen)