Sentence examples for as if engaging from inspiring English sources

More often, they are pouring beer down their throats as if engaging in a frat boy consumption contest — although only one of this hill town's denizens gets near a college campus.

I just need to go through a series of motoric motions, as if engaging in Czerny exercises for the piano or a sequence of scales and arpeggios cascading up and down the keyboard.

To placate him, Carl would occasionally take him to a park where, as if engaging in something deviant, he would give him one small container of cottage cheese and a plastic spoon -- and anxiously watch as his son ate it, reminding him not to spill even a little bit on his clothes or shoes.

Both men have got it in the neck for writing for the popular press, the suggestion being that it harms the proper, high-minded study of history - they are often described, rather sniffily as "popular historians", as if engaging the public in the great historical debates were somehow antithetical to real research.

Reading Gaga through the postmodern literary lens, as if engaging with an open-ended text, is perhaps one way to grasp the slippery Gaga phenomenon.

And, although it might seem as if engaging groundlessness would relieve existential suffering, the process of suffering and the groundlessness of one's world continue as losses accumulate and one's ability to actively engage groundlessness diminishes.

Right foot and left foot traded rhythms as if engaged in a spirited conversation.

A subject stands or sits opposite the scientist, as if engaged in an interview.

They creep stiffly across his head and face as if engaged in a minute examination for signs of life.

His persona and prose have come to coincide, as if engaged in a century-long solar eclipse.

As it happened, Sharapova allowed herself to be psyched out on her serve when Radwanska jumped to and from the service line as if engaged in some tennis hokey-pokey.