make as if
Example Sentences
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This is a film McElwee feels compelled to make, as if it were something living inside of him that had to be excised by any means necessary.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026
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
Jack's answer was to take the horseshoe from its resting place and make as if to fling it overboard.
From Boy Scouts in Southern Waters by G. Harvey (George Harvey) Ralphson
