as if

Example Sentences

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Though the film is framed as a conspiracy thriller, Spielberg’s essential goodheartedness continually peeks out, as if he can only play at being hard-bitten for so long.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

After I laid eyes on the current Oval Office, photos of the former version looked to me as if they were taken in a chain hotel suite, and not a particularly plush one.

From Slate • Jun. 11, 2026

While the potential for score-settling makes job applicants sweat, it isn’t as if people are constantly backstabbing one another.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Juliette Lewis will spend the majority of the film’s runtime inanimate; a chic vegetable that her friends draw lipstick on and talk to, as if she were as normal and responsive as any other day.

From Salon • Jun. 10, 2026

We all look at him as if he’s lost it.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold