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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Field has also been directed to bark her lines, as though impatience was an essential component of old age.
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Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 30 May 2026
Raring to go, all the top military brass, including the agitated Eisenhower and his supercilious British counterpart General Bernard Montgomery (Damian Lewis), act as though the rational, needfully single-minded man of science has personally betrayed the mission.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 27 May 2026
Along the corridors, boxes and papers were piled outside doors, sometimes strewn over the floor as though dropped and left there.
—Amer Matar, The Dial, 26 May 2026
The result is an animal that can drop out of the sky faster than many race cars can drive, yet delicate enough to land on a cliff edge moments later, almost as though nothing extraordinary had happened at all.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026
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Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 30 May 2026
Raring to go, all the top military brass, including the agitated Eisenhower and his supercilious British counterpart General Bernard Montgomery (Damian Lewis), act as though the rational, needfully single-minded man of science has personally betrayed the mission.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 27 May 2026
Along the corridors, boxes and papers were piled outside doors, sometimes strewn over the floor as though dropped and left there.
—Amer Matar, The Dial, 26 May 2026
The result is an animal that can drop out of the sky faster than many race cars can drive, yet delicate enough to land on a cliff edge moments later, almost as though nothing extraordinary had happened at all.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026
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“As though.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/as%20though. Accessed 3 Jun. 2026.
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