Sentence examples for as though getting from inspiring English sources

But most of the punters interpreted the dress code literally, as though getting kitted out for a Splendour-themed costume party.

Once at the plate, Helton stands in the batter's box in a relatively straight-up stance, as though getting a chest X-ray.

"Regardless of the outcome of the trial," breezed the Clueless star in her epistle to Putin, as though getting bogged down in that sort of minutiae was quite beneath them both, "I'm sure you can agree that everyone has the right to show compassion and refrain from harming animals by being vegan".

Nearing the head of the clough, I see a familiar shape perched on a boulder, a kestrel, which flops lazily off to one side, and then, as though getting a grip, moves more neatly westwards, quartering the ground over the Crow Stones.

They were surprisingly polite, in a Readers' Confessions way: "Lisa answered the door in a dangerously tight black dress," that sort of thing, written as though getting seconds of pleasure from the encounter (and for the prices involved, it's hard to begrudge any punter that).

It looks as though getting cards and cash expeditiously out of the TGT might be somewhat HRD, but backers didn't seem to agree, contributing almost $300,000 more than the original $20,000 funding goal.

Meanwhile, Roni Horn's stack of sleek, aluminum blocks backs into a corner as though to get as far away as possible.

Nothing aboard the ship, though, gets as much exercise as the jaws.

Perhaps it is just as well that D.S.K. is no longer making decisions that affect quite as many lives it sounds as though he got very tired.

Perhaps it is just as well that D.S.K. is no longer making decisions that affect quite as many lives — it sounds as though he got very tired.

All of this makes it appear as though Rabobank got off easy, even though it will pay more than $1 billion to settle with all the prosecutors and regulators.