Sentence examples for as if to explain from inspiring English sources

("It's fresh-killed," reported a waitress, as if to explain).

Marco put down his fork and looked at James as if to explain more clearly.

"I am so used to having two faces," he said, as if to explain his theatrical shifts in mood.

Parents matter on "Gossip Girl," and their negligence veins the narrative as if to explain their children's excesses.

Before the thought could be completed, Van Gundy put his hand on my shoulder, as if to explain an elementary point of basketball to a novice.

"I really don't get any other work but through Wes," he said, as if to explain his long working relationship with Mr. Anderson.

When I asked Obama about this, he smiled and leaned forward, as if eager to explain that my premise was precisely the politically calibrated approach that he wanted to challenge.

The four speakers, who included a Naval Academy friend of Major Zembiec and Gen. David H. Petraeus, the American commander in Iraq, spoke in unvarnished language, sometimes awkwardly, as if trying to explain to themselves why a man comes to this wind-raked patch of desert to fight an enemy he cannot see and what can be learned from his death.

Is that what you're saying?" After a ceremonious clearing of his throat, his father said, as if trying to explain a simple truth to a slow-witted child, "That is why I said, 'If you can't understand it without an explanation, you can't understand it with an explanation.' " Tengo folded his hands in his lap and looked straight into his father's face.

"He wasn't well travelled at that time; I felt as if you had to explain things to him as you would with a child.

But with a kind of pale look, as if they have to explain themselves to their bosses".