as it were
Example Sentences
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Wells’s “Outline of History” was an attempt to wrap the whole world, as it were, in a single volume.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026
The latest evidence for the prosecution, as it were, comes from the Social Security rolls, which show that record numbers of people are now claiming monthly benefits.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 5, 2025
"The Coldplay catalogue, as it were, finishes then," he told BBC Radio 2's Jo Whiley in 2021.
From BBC • Sep. 12, 2025
The Prince of Hong Kong, as it were, albeit for a couple of months.
From Salon • Jul. 12, 2025
For there were twenty-four of them, each one given his night to preach—to shine, as it were, before men, and to glorify his Heavenly Father.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
