as if
Example Sentences
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“You look as if you’d all been dead for weeks,” complained fan Annabel Lee in a poetic letter in the February 1966 issue of the Beatles Book Monthly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
It was as if the two songwriters were turning inward in reaction to putting on the biggest stadium tour in history to that point.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
We should start studying AI as if they were an entirely new species.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Smith denied this, and Schmitt grinned as if he’d just effectively locked Smith in jail forever on perjury charges.
From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2026
The badger grimaced, as if some deep, unwelcome part of her was considering this new fate.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
