Sentence examples for as if in a race from inspiring English sources

Men sprinted forward, as if in a race.

Similarly, in a Medinan sura that addresses interactions between Muslims, Christians, and Jews, the Qur'an says to compete, as if in a race, to "vie with one another in good works" (Q 5 48).

We still eat as if we were in a race — my wife says she'd never met anyone who ate as fast as I do, until she met my brothers — but there is no surreptitious pilfering of chicken skin (well, maybe a little), no wrestling over the last piece of pumpkin pie.

"It feels as if we're in a race now," Scott Stevens, the team captain, said.

"I sometimes feel as if I'm in a race: we've got to win," Ms. Roi said.

She will be given a brief – to do 10 runs of eight laps, say – and will be in radio contact as if she was in a race car.

They treat religion as if it is a race.

"Everyone looks at life as if it's a race.

Don't feel as if it is a race.

"Ah — ah — anh," the man says, panting as if he had been running in a race.

As Francisco says, "He's in a race with Death and it's as if Death is cheering him on".