Sentence examples for as if to propose from inspiring English sources

The Captain raises his empty glass, as if to propose a toast, and another round of brandies is poured.

To most readers it will be sheer counterintuitive dazzle, as if to propose that a chicken is the egg's device for creating other eggs.

AS if he were about to propose, Brian Hahs, an accountant from Wantagh, 35, dropped to one knee on the sand.

Kneel down on one knee (almost as if you were going to propose to someone).

Philosophy of as if, the system espoused by Hans Vaihinger in his major philosophical work Die Philosophie des Als Ob (1911; The Philosophy of "As If"), which proposed that man willingly accept falsehoods or fictions in order to live peacefully in an irrational world.

If the moment were a silent film, I would have looked as if I were proposing to each of them in turn to Maria, then to Erica, and finally to Autumn, who had found the ring.

Walker's office already operated as if the proposed changes to the open records law were made, according to the Journal Sentinel.

Yet many reacted angrily to Professor X's article (he prints some of the nastier letters he received here) as if he were proposing — to paraphrase Paul Fussell in his book "Class" — the beating to death of baby whales using the dead bodies of baby seals.

The stranger suddenly gave a knowing, ingratiating smile, a smile like a wink, as if he were proposing to his host, "Let's sin together!" But, also, as if he were apprehensive that his proposal might get him punished.

It's as if he's proposing to paste an asterisk on the American dream.

As if to confirm that, the mediator proposed that negotiators refer to schools by a name used moments earlier by Cariello in discussing a hypothetical school: The University of Nowheresville.