Sentence examples for hear as if from inspiring English sources

So you're still told 'This is the Saharan desert blues band that you must hear' – as if there aren't hundreds of different bands, doing hundreds of different things".

I found this strangely endearing to hear – as if we, the readers, were starting from the same page as the author, which was comforting.

In a rambling, disjointed monologue, he said his opponents were a minority of Venezuelans "who do not appear as if they want to hear, as if they want to see, as if they want to accept reality".

He identified what he heard, as if it were bird song.

At that, an emphatic shout is heard, as if from fans of a U.C.L.A. team cheering, and "U.C.L.A".

"There is a shipping forecast heaving into view," listeners heard, as if a giant liner was approaching a dinghy.

"Something funny?" our father would ask us, as if he hadn't heard, as if his chair, too, had not vibrated in the aftershock.

In other words, it looked as though Scheindlin were scheduling her remedies hearing as if she had already ruled against the city in Floyd.

Such was the city's importance in biblical times, that those who could not manage the journey there were advised to at least pray towards Jerusalem, in which case their prayer would be heard as if they were present.

It is often said of performances like this, in which every line emerges with fresh clarity and in proper balance, that inner voices are heard as if for the first time.

Inspired by the play of solidity and space in sculptures by Naum Gabo, and in Daniel Libeskind's architecture at the Jewish Museum Berlin, the piece offered an intricate tangle of roiling solo lines and dense ensemble rebuttals, broken up by five electronic interludes in which an old recording of klezmer music was heard as if across a void of space and time.