as if

Example Sentences

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In the same post, he also highlighted renovations to the White House’s Palm Room, emphasizing its expanded use of marble, as if to underscore that this isn’t a one-off idea, but a guiding design philosophy.

From Salon

The film is at once grand and intimate, as if it were expanding and contracting with the pulse of Ann Lee’s fervent congregation of Shakers, who pledged devout celibacy and pursued physical pleasure through loud, thumping worship.

From Salon

Intricate group choreography finds the Shakers swaying and stretching in tandem as if their hands were reaching up to pull God closer to Earth — or the congregation closer to Heaven.

From Salon

But it establishes which artists, such as Masson, deeply explored Surrealism’s mysterious realms and which, such as Ernst, Magritte and Dalí, distorted its surfaces, as if in a funhouse mirror.

From The Wall Street Journal

Historically, some U.S. listeners have struggled to embrace K-pop because of the language barrier, or found the genre’s melodic digressions and stop-start rhythms jarring, as if three songs are crammed into one.

From The Wall Street Journal