Sentence examples for lead as if from inspiring English sources

Pettitte gave up a two-run lead as if he were giving away free water.

These dominoes drop successively and lead, as if inevitably, to Christine's suicide.

When the gates flung open, Secretariat and Sham shot to the lead as if they were running a sprint.

But the Mexican side displayed another of its characteristic flaws, unable to hold a late lead as if it, too, had already begun to celebrate.

Instead, as the authors found of female entrepreneurs in Malaysia, women often have to "lead as if they were mothers or teachers".

She broke slowly and was 2 1/2 lengths behind a slow first-quarter of 0 23 1/5, then surged to the lead as if the others were standing still.

"You want to get up as close to the lead as possible, if not leading," Woods said.

"There is no longer any credibility – if there ever was – to the interpretation of Adam Smith's ideas that suggests firms' pursuit of self-interest leads, as if by an invisible hand, to the well-being of society," he said.

I doubt, too, that they could be shown as imaginatively as this, the vast hemisphere of Smirke's Reading Room standing in for the enormity of a netherworld through which we are led as if by our own Osiris.

"There is no longer any credibility – if there ever was – to the interpretation of Adam Smith's ideas that suggests firms' pursuit of self-interest leads, as if by an invisible hand, to the well-being of society," he said.

Skeptics, meanwhile, will point to the arc of the twin tale, which leads as if by natural logic from dream to disillusion: look at Che, they will say, standing on a mountainside and showing his fellow-rebels their destination, which turns out to be a sea of sullen fog.