as though

Example Sentences

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As though it were a regular household chore, people time themselves picking up their pets and children and scurrying into shelters.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Let’s just say she had not logged in and continued to check the website as though she was looking for Taylor Swift tickets,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal

A scruffy-faced Radcliffe, twinkling accessible geniality in jeans and a sweatshirt, zips up and down the cavernous theater as though waging a one-man campaign against the isolation epidemic.

From Los Angeles Times

He was arrested but later that evening he returned, acting as though nothing had happened.

From BBC

Yet, bafflingly, those same points of distinction have been all but lost in the way people discuss the Oscars, as though these awards are the single defining thing that will make a film special, that will make a movie feel as personal to everyone as it does to ourselves.

From Salon