Sentence examples for as if attempting from inspiring English sources

It writhed and squirmed, as if attempting to rise from the dead.

At the weigh-in, the fighters conducted the usual staring contest as if attempting a world record.

He sized up the crisis and went for the zipper as if attempting to start a lawn mower.

He then shook his right leg, as if attempting to loosen something, when he climbed back onto the rubber.

Sean Biggerstaff performs it in full in rehearsal, accompanying himself on guitar, clawing and hacking at the song as if attempting to force entry.

Meanwhile, barefoot, Butler meanders, skips, flits across the floor or bourrées in tight mincing steps, as if attempting to creep up to something or someone.

The video feels as if it's attempting to reach some point of coalescence, yet is consistently unable to do so due to the dissonance of the layered images.

Her speech is repeated, in German (Ms. Caspersen provides dispassionate translation), by George Reischl, plucking obsessively at his shirt, his head and shoulders swooping and jutting as if desperately attempting to escape confinement.

There also appeared a large and yet more heterogeneous mass of apocryphal writings falsely attributed to different Pythagoreans, as if attempts were being made to revive the school.

But it sounds as if attempts by others to do so have her further committed to this over-the-top potluck idea.

It's not as if attempts to save Vestas can be passed off as throwing money at "sunset" or lame-duck industries.