Sentence examples for as if left from inspiring English sources

Still others seemed hurt and bewildered, as if left without seats during a game of musical chairs.

The bank is littered with large rocks, flat enough to sit on, as if left there by a distant ice age.

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.

The key to lively sandwich-making, of course, is the freshest possible ingredients, and this was generally the case, though on one of three visits, the bread seemed dry, as if left over from the day before.

But my sense now is that except for occasional attempts to regulate sirens, or the Bloomberg administration's recent initiative to encourage a less annoying taxi horn, people are mostly resigned to high decibels and have learned to tune out all but the most extreme city sounds: the jackhammers, the fire engine klaxons, the helicopters whapping low overhead as if left over from "Apocalypse Now".

It's almost as if, left to our own devices, we can't be trusted to add items to our calendars correctly, so we need as much hand holding as possible.

VIN is clinically important because the rate of progression to invasive SCC is reported to be as high as 80%, if left untreated [ 38].

NOTE: Requests were counted as pending if left open for 30 days or longer.

Those who still live there try to slip unseen out of their front door as if leaving assignations.

Eliza confidently marched to her mic stand, while uncle Mike slouched on with a pint in his hand and a flat cap on his head, as if leaving the pub for a sneaky fag.

But as if leaving a warning for the future, it poured down enough water to inflict misery on many who had hoped in vain that the catastrophic earthquake on Jan . 12would be all they had to endure.