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
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
As she stood out into the roads and began to increase her speed, he directed the captain of the tug to steam forward and make as if to cross her bows.
From The Stolen Singer by Bellinger, Martha Idell Fletcher
