Sentence examples for as if sure from inspiring English sources

On a deathly cold night in London, though, they generate enough heat that young men and women are removing clothing and hurling it stagewards amid a febrile atmosphere: a crowd is staking its ownership of the band while they're still small enough to own, as if sure they'll never get the chance to invade the stage and kiss the members again.

Word this politely by using soft terms such as "if" and "would," making sure to mention your gratitude.

She answers questions slowly, as if making sure that nothing informative passes her lips.

"Can't read my book," the smaller man repeated, as if making sure that there was nothing ungrammatical about the sentence.

She looks confused, apprehensive, vaguely hopeful, as if not sure whether to anticipate a kick or a caress.

She looked down and fingered the pearls on her necklace one by one, as if making sure that they were all still there.

Looking ill and overweight, Twombly putters in his cluttered studio and sits and gazes perplexedly into space for long periods as if not sure where he is.

One man looked at the burning trash bin and the orange one behind him for bags, trash and the rest, as if not sure what each was for.

She says this with a tone of humor and disbelief, as if, yeah sure, denying yourself a bacon cheeseburger is going to be a blast.

Sweetness and menace were folded up in him — in the way that he angled himself at the world, as if both sure of his place within it and, deeper down, afraid that it might still spit him out.

He spoke in slowly crafted sentences, punctuated by frequent pauses, as if less sure of aging mental legs in tricky intellectual terrain that he had once traversed with ease.