Sentence examples for as if stuff from inspiring English sources

When Song's father died unexpectedly, in 2002, her thrift gave way to hoarding, as if stuff could palliate grief.

When Song's father died unexpectedly, in 2002, thrift gave way to hoarding, as if stuff could palliate grief.

Pratt lifted his knee and pounded his cleats into the plate, as if stuffing trash deeper into a wastebasket.

The heavyweight champions of their respective eras, Jack Dempsey, Joe Louis and Ali, all became quasi-ghosts - Louis sitting, as if stuffed, in a Las Vegas casino so the curious would be drawn in to stare at him, Dempsey propped up in the picture window of his Times Square restaurant, and Ali himself, now a dim relic of what he once was, sad to say, uneasy in limb and voice.

In youth, the pores are white and appear as if stuffed with cotton (which are actually mycelia); as they age, they change colour to yellow and later to brown.

She scoops up a mouthful of roast beef as if to stuff away the emotion.

Heavy investment has crowded out consumption, and heavy industry has muscled out services, as if making stuff mattered more than serving people.This week, however, China faced a less familiar complaint: it is not growing fast enough.

The whole Ed Begley, Jr. saving the forest bit seems to have been tacked on, as if the stuff about Homer finding his name being abused (shades of Mr. Sparkle again?) ran out of steam.

The other dresses up and sits as immobilely as if taxidermically stuffed.

As a rule, the snow is the dry-as-dust variety — stuff that, if you dive into a fresh pile of it, gives you the sensation of tumbling into a bowl of flour.

We hate it when they they pull this constituent-only stuff--as if the bill will only affect their own constituents!