Sentence examples for makes as if from inspiring English sources

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And, Luke tells us, "the stranger makes as if to go on".

He makes as if he is cutting to the inside, freezing the blocker by causing his feet to stop.

After, in Puttermesser's apartment, he makes as if to leap from the window; then he picks up his things and walks out the door.

Schultz has a tendency to phrase any decision he makes as if it were a case of Icarus flying too close to the sun.

9.43pm: OH MY EYES. Bruce introduces Ali Bastian with a weird gag about strippergrams, and then makes as if to take his clothes off.

After two hours, six premature slurs of "Goodnight" and a genuinely terrifying moment where he makes as if to take his clothes off, Damon finally delivers the gorgeous bittersweet anthems people have paid for.

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Mr. Circelli made as if to leave.

She mumbled something and then made as if to turn.

He made as if to squeeze an orange.

Hope made as if to catch her granddaughter's hand through the glass.

Safin, impatient and grim, jumped from his perch and made as if to leave.

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