as if
Example Sentences
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Fifty years of covering more than 700 high schools like they were the only school, writing about thousands of athletes as if they stood alone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
Instead, they take turns to silently perform a series of moves and poses that look, to the untrained eye, as if they are playing charades or, as they writhe on the ground, breakdancing.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
With a little fine-tuning, a model can pilot a robot in the real world as if it were a character in a videogame.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
As Moss told Jewish Insider at the time, those attacks “touch many people’s ears as if it’s trafficking antisemitism.”
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
Marcie said, smiling wide, extending her arms as if she’d performed a magic trick.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
