Idiom
make believe
Meaning
To pretend or imagine.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The children like to make believe they are pirates.”
“During the long flight, the toddler used his toy plane to make believe he was flying across the ocean.”
“The lonely writer would often make believe that his fictional characters were real people sitting across from him at the dinner table.”
Examples
simple
“The children like to make believe they are pirates.”
contextual
“During the long flight, the toddler used his toy plane to make believe he was flying across the ocean.”
complex
“The lonely writer would often make believe that his fictional characters were real people sitting across from him at the dinner table.”
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