The phrase "as if plotting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where someone appears to be scheming or planning something, often with a sense of intrigue or secrecy.
Example: "She looked at him with a mischievous smile, as if plotting her next move in the game."
Alternatives: "as though scheming" or "as if devising a plan".
Another man approached her and lowered his voice as if plotting something subversive.
The dancers rushed about, marched militantly, gathered in groups as if plotting strategy, embraced as if comforting one another and fell as if shot down in battle.
He worries, of course, that the prisoners are trying to lull their guards into complacency, and even notes that he has seen them moving shampoo bottles around as if plotting strategy.
The track marches along with a brisk, focused assurance, as if plotted and planned for an assault on the American charts, and it confirms that when the chips are down, Rod can still deliver on his core business.
The linear correlation of the derived "peak-area to peak-height ratio" (PD(A/H)) for the perchlorate peak, if plotted as the value on the abscissa against the corresponding conductivity on the ordinate, allows for the evaluation of a possible matrix influence on the chromatographic separation.
If plotted as a function of a time variable describing each individual re-sampling interval by a single point (e.g., the end of its observation period), the time-dependent confidence bands will be generated, similar to those produced with the Principal Response Curves (PRC) method [7].
If plotted against time (as shown in Figure 3F) it is clear that the fusion protein begins to accumulate only after induction.
The weighted average mineral concentrations were determined from the degree of mineralisation of the LB and IF, and plotted as a function of developmental age and genotype.
In this first episode, Proudlock – previously cast as a sly, plotting (if affable) lothario – reveals a new side to himself.
She also sings, and does so as if she were plotting a curse.
He was a pious, mild-mannered introvert, with no apparent real-world jihadi connections, yet online he wrote as if he were plotting a suicide attack.
