as it were
Example Sentences
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And whatever their failures are, that ends up being their ruling attribute to their poker game, as it were.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2026
After years at war – or performing military service as it were – they’re back to pick up where they left off with their lives, music and fans.
From Salon • Mar. 27, 2026
They aimed to retain the “breathing units” of biblical speech, even if that meant straining German with Hebraic syntax; the criteria, Mendes-Flohr observes, were “not aesthetic but, as it were, respiratory.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026
The proof of Akangbe Ogun's pudding, as it were, is writ large in the monumental sculptures, structures in fantastical formations that attest to his mastery of his art, on view all over the Osun Grove.
From BBC • Jan. 19, 2026
“I wish you were....Sometimes one is desolate, there are moments when one is in hell, as it were, but—it also brings with it other and better things.”
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
