as though

Example Sentences

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To be clear, it’s not as though there was any best-case scenario in a Warner Bros. sale.

From Slate

The film exhibits no sense of how to stage a surprise, settling instead for hackish tricks like having a character nonsensically appear in, say, the middle of a deserted street as though arriving via drone.

From The Wall Street Journal

He constantly minimizes the cost of all this testing; at one point he writes, “CGM costs about $120 a month, which is not insignificant—but I would argue that even this is still far cheaper than allowing someone to slide into metabolic dysfunction and eventually type 2 diabetes,” as though this is a foregone conclusion.

From Slate

A big fat bunny was curled up in Daisy’s lap just as though he belonged there.

From Literature

He would honk his delight to the four winds, walk around as though he wasn’t paying any attention until Rowdy got comfortable and went to sleep.

From Literature