Sentence examples for as though trying from inspiring English sources

Many babies suffering from colic stretch their legs out or pull their feet up under their bodies, as though trying to ease a cramp.

He spoke sharply, as though trying to contain his fury.

It swallows & swallows as though trying to remember tasting water for the first time.

He sounds cold when he says this, as though trying to distance himself.

At one point, she put her hand inside the bodice, as though trying to adjust something.

Even when on his feet, he hunches over, as though trying to assume a fetal position.

From behind a grill on the second floor comes the noise of a bird rustling and screeching, as though desperately trying to escape its cage.

Not, though, as baffling as trying to actually find the Olympic park at the other end.

Actually, it served as a dry run for Mr. Lucas's "THX1138," which concerned programed people with numbers stamped on their foreheads who were forbidden to love their "mates". Here, most of the film shows the man who rebelled against the system running through endless corridors as though trying to flee from both the future and the past.

He has a controlled, quiet voice, as though permanently trying to quell an argument.

It felt as though they tried their best to get appropriate material at the time but that they failed to massage it after the fact".