as though

Example Sentences

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"It's not as though it was going to be easy before, and now it's hard," said Melcher.

From BBC • Jul. 9, 2026

It’s as though she’s reminding us that what we see can only ever be some of the story, and that the music is the place where the gaps are filled in.

From Salon • Jul. 8, 2026

It’s proposing to allow public companies to give their investors less information, as though that’s a good thing.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 8, 2026

Using the newly developed control protocols, researchers can suppress the usual emergence of the arrow of time or even reverse its apparent direction, making quantum processes look as though they are unfolding backward.

From Science Daily • Jul. 3, 2026

In that time, Clare had not known a stitch of peace, as though the seam of his very existence were being torn in different directions.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman