How to Use as if in a Sentence

as if

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• Then exhale the air out of the mouth, keeping the restriction of the throat and maintaining the oceanic sound—as if fogging up a mirror with the breath.
  — Finnian Kelly, TIME, 8 July 2024
• Pat Riley has spoken about player availability, as if health can be mandated.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 17 July 2024
• So many modern wrist watches are recreations or reinterpretations of older watches, and many are made to appear as if the entropic effects of time have had their way with these new watches.
  — Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 16 July 2024
• The result blends in as if it's always been a part of the home.
  — Elena Donovan Mauer, Country Living, 28 July 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Intifada comes from the Arabic root meaning to shake off, as if dust from a cloth.
  — Adrian Florido, NPR, 1 June 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
• Video footage shows Roth taking out his phone and holding it as if recording.
  — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2024
• One elderly attendee held his hand up, as if to ward C.J. off.
  — Jenavieve Hatch, Sacramento Bee, 9 June 2024
• So it’s got this really seamless effect, as if the moon is lighting us on the stage.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 25 June 2024
• To my surprise the turtle turned its head and gazed directly into the camera as if to check me out.
  — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2024
• Fresh aromas from the olive trees waft into each space, almost as if on purpose.
  — Jessica Vadillo, Travel + Leisure, 11 June 2024
• But the Yankees finally played as if somebody lit their hair on fire.
  — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 7 July 2024
• Chance — the half-naked guy on the left — waves around a fistful of lottery tickets above a golden urn, as if to taunt Fortune — the naked lady on the right.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2024
• The opposing team’s diver emerged from the water throwing her hands high as if a gold medal was about to be placed around her neck.
  — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 17 July 2023
• To her surprise, the television producer acted as if all was right in the world.
  — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 12 Dec. 2023
• Nicholas Putz, a frequent customer who has lived in Elm Grove for 12 years, said the business was open last week as if there were no issues.
  — Bridget Fogarty, Journal Sentinel, 11 June 2024
• Nicholas Putz, a frequent customer who has lived in Elm Grove for 12 years, said the business was open last week as if there were no issues.
  — Bridget Fogarty, Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Aug 2024