The phrase "as if to highlight" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something is done in a manner that emphasizes or draws attention to a particular point or idea.
Example: "The author included a poignant quote, as if to highlight the central theme of the story."
Alternatives: "in order to emphasize" or "to underscore".
As if to highlight how unexpectedly the season turned, the Giants found confidence in a loss to end the regular season.
As if to highlight that, one of their first acts was to place a pair of green-oak cannons on the lawn, pointing directly out to sea.
As if to highlight the new cooperation between the uniforms and the suits, Mr. Holbrooke and Admiral Mullen bantered and joked all week.
She is a serial boozer, and, as if to highlight the fact, most of the wine she drinks is of a nasty urinous hue.
It was an auspicious start, but then, as if to highlight the up-and-down nature of any rehabilitation, he hit the next batter, Logan Watkins.
As if to highlight its progress, the Treasury Department announced an agreement with Italy to freeze money linked to 25 people and organizations whose activities are scattered from Milan to Istanbul to tax havens like Liechtenstein and the Bahamas.
It's filmed in black-and-white, which, in its abstraction, brings a kind of X-ray clarity to the story's framework — as if Hong were looking to highlight the secret patterns as much as the overt story — which he then redoubles with the protagonist's own occasional touches of internal monologue on the soundtrack.
Is that the way you wrote the script, as a way to highlight the 50s feeling, or if it's something that you [JM] added to the script?
But if people can pay to Highlight posts as often as they want, it could do more harm than good.].
As if to illustrate these challenges, the highlights of Mr. Putin's visit included the sale of 2,250 Russian-built Lada vehicles to Venezuela's government, and the delivery of four MI-17 helicopters to Mr. Ch z's military, even though Mr. Ch z had suggested before Mr. Putin's arrival that the countries could cooperate ambitiously on nuclear energy and a satellite-launching base in Venezuela.
But as a youth, it seemed almost as if they were there only to highlight just how less fortunate we were than the rest of the world.
