Sentence examples for it were both from inspiring English sources

He, and it, were both lucky to survive.

Simultaneously private and theatrical, her characters play for the camera as if it were both a bedroom mirror and an open mic.

They discuss dementia as if it were both news that we were unaware of and that it is somehow our collective fault for being unaware of it.

Traversing the landscape and painting it were both routes to understanding and respect for Gifford, as for other 19th-century American landscapists.

"I thought it might be funny and interesting if I could come up with a 'body-swap' idea, where one person lives, as it were, both lives.

LANCE CUMMINGS Tokyo, Oct. 15, 2013 To the Editor: How nonchalantly T. M. Luhrmann tosses off the old canard about "no atheists in foxholes" as if it were both self-evident and unexceptionable.

Can it be both?

Actually, it's both.

Probably it's both".

Manifestly it is both.

It is both.