How to Use as if in a Sentence

as if

conjunction

• The result blends in as if it's always been a part of the home.
  — Elena Donovan Mauer, Country Living, 28 July 2023
• For men, life in the 2020s feels as if the world suddenly turned on them.
  — Bymohamed El Aassar, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2023
• Death Skull stared at Doug as if seeing him for the first time.
  — Simon Rich, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
• Stafford looks as if he’s been playing with them for years.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• The video will show a pit with boots and hands that stick out of the dirt, as if intending to crawl out.
  — Maggie Levantovskaya, Longreads, 31 Aug. 2023
• The same kind of as if they were all just built on one piece of silicon.
  — Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 20 Mar. 2024
• Her life would be stopped up, as if a blood clot had blocked the passage of blood from her heart to her body.
  — Tessa Hadley, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
• Bush Hager carries son Hal, who holds his nose as if there were a smell.
  — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 29 Nov. 2023
• Jumping from coupling to coupling as if that’s the object of the game.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023
• My teacher wheeled the TV out of the room and began our math lesson as if all was fine.
  — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 7 Mar. 2024
• Stones, scattered across one length of lane as if thrown by a giant.
  — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2023
• Within, the bridges are shaped like angular shards, and the wheels are formed as if a blast wave has hit them.
  — Elizabeth Doerr, Robb Report, 10 Jan. 2024
• There’s an awkward pause, in which the tour guide surveys the room, as if in search of evidence to the contrary.
  — Clare Sestanovich, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
• But to teach his son a lesson, Usher acted as if the teen wasn't allowed to go at first.
  — Taijuan Moorman, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2024
• Intifada comes from the Arabic root meaning to shake off, as if dust from a cloth.
  — Adrian Florido, NPR, 1 June 2024
• Their mother, Bridget Hughes, was found dead in the bedroom down the hall, her body pressed against the door as if to keep the shooter out.
  — Paige Pfleger, ProPublica, 3 Nov. 2023
• Video footage shows Roth taking out his phone and holding it as if recording.
  — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2024
• To my surprise the turtle turned its head and gazed directly into the camera as if to check me out.
  — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2024
• Chance — the half-naked guy on the left — waves around a fistful of lottery tickets above a golden urn, as if to taunt Fortune — the naked lady on the right.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2024
• The opposing team’s diver emerged from the water throwing her hands high as if a gold medal was about to be placed around her neck.
  — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 17 July 2023
• To her surprise, the television producer acted as if all was right in the world.
  — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 12 Dec. 2023
• Nicholas Putz, a frequent customer who has lived in Elm Grove for 12 years, said the business was open last week as if there were no issues.
  — Bridget Fogarty, Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2024
• Hal chases after me on his bike, one leg dangling off of it, as if his ankle is pumping a fist in the air in the same way his arm is.
  — Devin Kelly, Longreads, 7 Mar. 2024
• Each of them cracking a smile and sharing a laugh, as if no major scandal was bubbling behind the scenes.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024
• Photo : Joe Fletcher The dining area and kitchen appear as if hovering on the ocean.
  — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 9 May 2024
• No masks can filter out ozone, so stay inside on high ozone days as if possible.
  — Journal Sentinel, 26 Apr. 2024
• The title does have an air of at least temporary finality to it, as if the cupboard is bare.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 30 Nov. 2023
• One of the warehouses looked suspended in time, as if the workers had dropped their tools mid-shift and never returned.
  — Terrence McCoy, Washington Post, 28 July 2023
• The next day, people went shopping and to work, ate out in restaurants and clogged the streets with traffic jams, almost as if nothing had happened.
  — Maria Varenikova Tyler Hicks, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2024
• The 36-foot inflatable boat darted down the coast, passengers’ hair whipping in the wind as if on an amusement ride on the water.
  — Laylan Connelly, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024