as though

Example Sentences

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Today, it’s as though it’s waiting for last rites.

From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026

It hardly seems as though there is room for any kind of overreaching music director.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026

Now he says he feels as though he is "rotting away for no reason" in a hospital room.

From BBC • May 19, 2026

Yet O’Connor condemned RIH’s move as an underhanded gambit to “circumvent” his authority, as though he alone had a claim to litigate this dispute and McElroy was an impudent interloper.

From Slate • May 19, 2026

To go from table arrangements to catching spies—it felt as though I had leapfrogged over weeks or months of training.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse