The phrase "as though examining" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an action or behavior that resembles or mimics the act of examining something closely or critically.
Example: "She looked at the painting as though examining every brushstroke for hidden meaning."
Alternatives: "as if scrutinizing" or "like inspecting".
The camera focuses on Ms. Petri's mesmerizing, enigmatic features with increasing intensity, as though examining an elusive coded language.
He showed it in the following way: he'd take me by the chin, lift my head, and smell it, as though examining a melon for ripeness.
The hand scene works as a miniature representation of Tavares's fiction as a whole, which regards the human world with a peculiar combination of distance and precision, as though examining it from a remote location through a very powerful lens.
One couple said that their dog was kind of a doctor in that if one of the humans was coughing, the dog would come over to the human as though examining the human to see what was wrong.
Equally, though, examined deeply, as these nights do, Kraftwerk's music is hugely comforting: full of churchy organs and an almost childlike sense of wonder.
Using the Xbox's Kinect system in the Autovista section, the player can examine a car as though in a showroom, without leaving the sofa.
Fridoun explained what had caused each piece of devastation, and after a while it seemed as though we were examining the city the way one assesses the age of a dead tree by counting the rings in its stump.
If students are talking about it, though, it's worth examining as a way to build their critical muscles.
This manifests in wildly different forms as you cycle through the songs, as though she's moving slowly through a palatial house and stopping in each high-ceilinged room to examine some part of herself, whether light or dark.
Evidently, as, though for all.
