The phrase "as if to mirror" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or action that reflects or resembles something else, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "The artist's latest work is vibrant and full of life, as if to mirror the beauty of the natural world."
Alternatives: "as though reflecting" or "as if reflecting".
And, sure enough, as if to mirror the great man theory of history, a few great (or at least notorious) pets emerge from her text.
AS if to mirror her acceptance speech at this year's Tony Awards ceremony, Katie Finneran's marriage last week to her fellow actor Darren Goldstein offered humor and heart in equal measures.
As if to mirror those facts, Steidlville is a superabundant and hypnotically repetitious place: the stacks of books on the staircases, the rows of computer monitors, the pallets of paper, the unceasing rhythm of the press, the artists circling in and out, the relentless schedule, a new book, another, another.
He sees Glynis's surgery as "gouging a meaty chunk" from his portfolio, "as if to fiscally mirror the violence inflicted on his wife's abdomen".
The group held their arms out, as if to hug their mirror doubles.
Ms. Murphy would be even better if she turned her face and eyes to the house rather than as if to the rehearsal-studio mirror, but there were moments when she crested the music with exhilarating precision.
While recovering from the near-fatal attempt on his life in 1968, he snapped Polaroids of himself in a mirror, as if to get an objective image of his bullet-scarred torso.
As the gradient became steeper, the sky began to look as if it was mirroring the schism in the landscape; the brilliant blue of the east was divided by a sharp, sunlit line that marked the edge of the black thunderous clouds of the west.
It's tempting to politicize the memory of a day so full of personal and national honor, too easy to allude to the wars of our times as if they naturally mirrored World War II.
Type the entire phrase backwards from the end to the beginning, as if holding a mirror up to the monitor, like this: ".woHikiw no sdrawkcab etirw ot woh gninreal ma I" ("I am learning how to write backwards on wikiHow" backwards).
The Irish Times's critic identified one cause of the trouble: "It is as if a mirror were held up to our faces and we found ourselves hideous.
