Examples of as though in a Sentence
the applause was so great it was as though the toddler's dance class had been the Bolshoi Ballet
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Yet to have one lobbed at me intramurally, and by a good buddy like Joshua Messing, made my gut feel as though it were packed with wet sand, too heavy even to vomit.
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Chang-Rae Lee, New Yorker, 3 May 2026
Washington — Dahlia Doe felt as though her world was shaken.
—Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 28 Apr. 2026
Even novels and feature films that criticized the war were being told from the American point of view, as though Iraqis barely existed.
—Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026
And the most powerful among them, particularly those who didn’t face actual criminal charges, managed to put their head down, console themselves with their enormous bank account, and gradually reemerge into public life as though nothing had happened.
—Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 26 Apr. 2026
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Chang-Rae Lee, New Yorker, 3 May 2026
Washington — Dahlia Doe felt as though her world was shaken.
—Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 28 Apr. 2026
Even novels and feature films that criticized the war were being told from the American point of view, as though Iraqis barely existed.
—Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026
And the most powerful among them, particularly those who didn’t face actual criminal charges, managed to put their head down, console themselves with their enormous bank account, and gradually reemerge into public life as though nothing had happened.
—Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 26 Apr. 2026
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“As though.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/as%20though. Accessed 7 May. 2026.
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