Pretender Definition

Pretender Sentence Examples

• He's a pretender, pure and simple.

• In the same year he joined as a volunteer against the Pretender, and was taken prisoner at the battle of Falkirk (1746).

• He reigned only four months (in 294), and was succeeded by the pretender Narseh.

• He now renounced all further efforts on the Pretender's behalf.'

• Not a rough prophet in the desert like John, not a leader striking for political freedom, not a pretender aiming at the petty throne of the Herods, not even a great rabbi, building on the patriotic foundation of the Pharisees who had secured the national life by a new devotion to the ancient law.