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
• But acting as if those ways are to be hushed is the way of the old world.
  — Danyel Smith, Essence, 16 Oct. 2024
• The dusty Ohtani trudged to the dugout as if marching through a nightmare.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2024
• 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
• The new sign is flimsy-looking and crooked, as if it had been hit with a strong wind.
  — The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 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
• For the rest of the year, Afghans are kept out of sight, quietly abandoned to their fate, as if nothing can be done.
  — Binaifer Nowrojee, TIME, 15 Aug. 2024
• 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
• In fact, it can be punished in ironic ways, as if to show that obsessing over the future is the surest way to miss out on the present.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 26 Oct. 2024
• There was a social media firestorm — as if there is any other kind — from the Italians.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2024
• The young bull stood still as if incredulous that such a thing could happen.
  — Anton Money, Outdoor Life, 15 Aug. 2024
• One elderly attendee held his hand up, as if to ward C.J. off.
  — Jenavieve Hatch, Sacramento Bee, 9 June 2024
• Meaning me — as if Shanola's character in some way made Sir bad.
  — Dave Quinn, People.com, 3 Oct. 2024
• So it’s got this really seamless effect, as if the moon is lighting us on the stage.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 25 June 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
• Fresh aromas from the olive trees waft into each space, almost as if on purpose.
  — Jessica Vadillo, Travel + Leisure, 11 June 2024
• Her patients seemed almost as if they were being attacked by the camp itself.
  — Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024