Examples of using "Pretexto" in a sentence and their english translations:
He came to my house on the pretext of seeing me.
He often uses the slightest thing as a pretext for a fight with anybody.
Mary doesn't want to see me, but I have to find an excuse for talking to her.
The Japanese fishing fleet catches more than 1000 whales per year on the pretext of scientific research.
'If the name / of Palamedes thou hast chanced to hear, / old Belus' progeny, if ever came / to thee or thine in talk the rumour of his fame, / whom, pure of guilt, on charges false and feigned, / wroth that his sentence should the war prevent, / by perjured witnesses the Greeks arraigned, / and doomed to die, but now his death lament.'