Sentence examples for as if alone from inspiring English sources

The gym was filled with people, but Mayweather and Garcia conducted this ritual as if alone.

She started "Júrame," a desperately lovelorn bolero she learned from a 1926 recording, singing unaccompanied, as if alone and tearful.

In "A Farewell to Who You Are," a solo, Ms. Kim kept sadly shifting position, as if, alone and lonely, she were reliving some old love affair.

And still without looking at anybody, but making a great clatter with his fork, he is eating as if alone, and hungry.

In one of the work's most haunting passages, she looks for long moments into the mirror, as if alone on a dark and windy mountaintop.

(Calvin Klein did a better job all by himself one night, staring out from his table of supplicants in back as if alone, or lost).

I trotted the thing out in public for the second time, wearing it to the unveiling of a Banksy in NoHo, as if Glass alone or Banksy alone wasn't trendy enough.

Not only is this offensively paternalistic – as if left alone they might splurge on cigarettes and sweets – but it's also an absurd waste of resources.

Often the music caresses the air as if it alone might coax a confession from Melisande.

I went to St. Martin's" — he said it as if that alone answered the question.

Restaurant bills can feel similarly ludicrous too, as if price alone can elevate the mediocre.