How to Use as if in a Sentence

as if

conjunction

• The result blends in as if it's always been a part of the home.
  — Elena Donovan Mauer, Country Living, 28 July 2023
• But acting as if those ways are to be hushed is the way of the old world.
  — Danyel Smith, Essence, 16 Oct. 2024
• The dusty Ohtani trudged to the dugout as if marching through a nightmare.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2024
• For men, life in the 2020s feels as if the world suddenly turned on them.
  — Bymohamed El Aassar, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2023
• Death Skull stared at Doug as if seeing him for the first time.
  — Simon Rich, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
• Stafford looks as if he’s been playing with them for years.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• The video will show a pit with boots and hands that stick out of the dirt, as if intending to crawl out.
  — Maggie Levantovskaya, Longreads, 31 Aug. 2023
• The same kind of as if they were all just built on one piece of silicon.
  — Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 20 Mar. 2024
• As fresh, amusing, and full of beds as if the scene were laid on Long Island.
  — The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2025
• Tree limbs whispered in the night wind as if urging them on.
  — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 10 Nov. 2024
• The new sign is flimsy-looking and crooked, as if it had been hit with a strong wind.
  — The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
• Instead, questions are framed as if the adults are lost.
  — Deanne Revel, Southern Living, 26 Dec. 2024
• Her life would be stopped up, as if a blood clot had blocked the passage of blood from her heart to her body.
  — Tessa Hadley, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
• Bush Hager carries son Hal, who holds his nose as if there were a smell.
  — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 29 Nov. 2023
• And as if that weren’t enough, for good measure there are Russians.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2025
• Chair pose: Squat as if sitting in a chair with a block between thighs.
  — Amy Kwan, Verywell Health, 14 Jan. 2025
• Jumping from coupling to coupling as if that’s the object of the game.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023
• My teacher wheeled the TV out of the room and began our math lesson as if all was fine.
  — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 7 Mar. 2024
• Stones, scattered across one length of lane as if thrown by a giant.
  — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2023
• Within, the bridges are shaped like angular shards, and the wheels are formed as if a blast wave has hit them.
  — Elizabeth Doerr, Robb Report, 10 Jan. 2024
• My hands weren’t even cold, as if my body itself was adapting.
  — Kate Siber, Outside Online, 3 Mar. 2025
• There’s an awkward pause, in which the tour guide surveys the room, as if in search of evidence to the contrary.
  — Clare Sestanovich, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
• For the rest of the year, Afghans are kept out of sight, quietly abandoned to their fate, as if nothing can be done.
  — Binaifer Nowrojee, TIME, 15 Aug. 2024
• But to teach his son a lesson, Usher acted as if the teen wasn't allowed to go at first.
  — Taijuan Moorman, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2024
• Her mother jumped back, as if the SUV would suddenly run her over.
  — Nnedi Okorafor, WIRED, 14 Jan. 2025
• Intifada comes from the Arabic root meaning to shake off, as if dust from a cloth.
  — Adrian Florido, NPR, 1 June 2024
• Light falls largely on cheekbones and brows, as if Auerbach were gauging the best access to the brain.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
• Exhale through your lips, with them positioned as if they were pursed around a straw.
  — Michael Menna, Verywell Health, 4 Nov. 2024
• Their mother, Bridget Hughes, was found dead in the bedroom down the hall, her body pressed against the door as if to keep the shooter out.
  — Paige Pfleger, ProPublica, 3 Nov. 2023
• The Treasure Hunter tells the agonizing and archetypal story of a treasure hunt, as if taken straight out of a (dark) fairytale.
  — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 20 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 19 Mar 2025