Sentence examples for as if to protect from inspiring English sources

Jack raised a hand as if to protect his face.

As if to protect herself, Faheema entered the room with a veil covering her whole face.

My reflex was to scream and flail my arms as if to protect my face.

But Ramos Allup's body language was unaggressive, his hands limp, sometimes raised as if to protect himself.

Again, the police intervened, as if to protect Mr. Curtis and Mr. Del Pratt, but instead walking them to the stationhouse in handcuffs.

Karen reached back and unbuckled him and lifted him over the seat and held him in her arms as if to protect him from me.

He has a way of hugging one shoulder up to his ear as if trying to protect himself.

And in her early writing, she could be very critical of secular feminism, as if trying to protect Orthodoxy from it.

Video of the game shows Tebow hobbling, as if trying to protect his right leg with his left,  throughout the fourth quarter — including the play on which he ran 29 yards for a touchdown that tied the score.

Doctorow himself, in some recent books, has told his stories in a nonlinear way, as if trying to protect his fictions against Hollywood's appropriating gaze, and perhaps against the charge of being unprovocative, unoriginal and not unsettling.

Parents and grandparents hold onto their children, as if determined to protect them from further harm.