Some arrangements about his horse and baggage formed the pretext for his sudden retreat.

He delayed payment on some pretext or other.

If you calmly look at the reply you sent to an email, you'll find that it'll have "you" all over it. While you may use the pretext that you're just working with whatever information the addressee gave you, in the end it's just all about yourself. This is wrong. Let's be a little more careful, shall we?

He did not come on the pretext of sickness.

... reason? What you're looking for is a pretext, isn't it?

He came to my house on the pretext of seeing me.

What have we become as a society when we need alcohol to enjoy ourselves? It has become a pretext for outlandish behaviour and plain old debauchery.

His wife repulsed him on the pretext that her headaches were flaring up again.

He fired me and offered a pretextual rationale for the firing.

Quebec, which officially celebrates several Christian holidays, has banned religious symbols in the public sector under the obviously false pretext of "secularism."