Sentence examples for as if pointing from inspiring English sources

Mr. Lui grinned and sighed, as if pointing out the obvious.

He surveys and anatomizes the wreckage of battle as if pointing out the vomit after a drunken party.

Sam Thomas, jump racing's poster boy, describes the scars across his nose as if pointing to a map of British racecourses.

(Later, he shows me the type of machine that did it with a chuckle, as if pointing out a mischievous child).

Across a vast pond-studded courtyard, the Ismaili Centre is a cluster of low-slung sandstone buildings, from which emerges a translucent pyramidal roof, ramping up at an angle as if pointing towards the stars.

A mother, walking by with her little daughters, remarked delightedly, as if pointing out a toucan, "O! La chiquita está pintada!" (The lady is painted!) The television woke us the next morning with an exuberant report on the infestation of Burmese pythons that has taken over the Everglades — our day's destination.

"But you hear them plenty tripping off the presidential tongue, as if to point the finger on the other side of the Atlantic.

Yet the intimate eroticism of the music is contradicted, as if point-by-point, by the paranoid, sex-panicked plot.

In those days, he approached the game as if points were rewarded for style as well as execution.

The questions were coming at Baylor's Perry Jones III about his erratic season, as if points were the only measure of a game: 22 points one night, 5 another.

With the advantage in manpower, City's attack was oppressive, as if blood were in the water, but more accurately as if points were easily attainable.