make as if
Example Sentences
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The following week, Ron listed several changes he said I needed to make, as if he were some sort of petite Professor Higgins molding my coarse Eliza Doolittle.
From Salon • Oct. 16, 2016
Friends mean well, or make as if they do.
From Time Magazine Archive
This time Bigwig decided to make as if to go.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
Now and again he would look up at Wyckoff's face and then make as if to take a bite of the man's leg.
From Boy Scouts in Southern Waters by Ralphson, G. Harvey (George Harvey)
Didst note the heron once did turn about, And show a certain anger with his wing, And make as if he almost dared, not quite, To strike the falcon, ere the falcon him?
From The Poems of Sidney Lanier by Lanier, Sidney
