as if
Example Sentences
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It’s as if Man Cereal wants us to laugh at it.
From Salon • May 23, 2026
Celtic had an obligation to buy him that summer, as if they would do anything else.
From BBC • May 23, 2026
Why wait months to release a report that looks as if it were whipped up by a high school freshman an hour before deadline?
From Slate • May 23, 2026
But the scares were middling to begin with because Øvredal — a game but overeager trickster — telegraphs his set pieces as if he were equipped with a flare gun and detour cones.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026
For there lay Betsie, her eyes closed as if in sleep, her face full and young.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
