Sentence examples for say as though from inspiring English sources

"Oh, you're Alison's mother!" they'd say, as though Alison, with her accomplishments, bestowed a reflected glory on the parents who'd made her.

"I felt," my Aunt Denise used to say, "as though I spent all three days pushing him out of my eyes".

"He's popular!" Corbynites say, as though Michael Foot wasn't popular with the home crowd before losing 52 seats in the general election.

In a state where thousands of families are descended from polygamists, the genes of a relatively small group of men have been amplified and etched into the biological record, researchers say, as though with a highlighting pen.

But they make it as judges make it, which is to say as though they were 'finding' it -- discerning what the law is, rather than decreeing what it is today changed to, or what it will tomorrow be".

I say "as though" because I don't know what's going on in her head, but it's hard to think of a musician who commits more fully to his or her stage persona, in this case, high priestess of baroque pop, and who's to say it's a persona at all?

"I'm encouraged for my country that we're here together," Clinton said, as though, by meeting with someone from his own party, he were doing something bipartisan.

To say as much, though, gives the books a chronicler's purposefulness that their sentences belie.

"Forgiveness," Father Paul said, as though the word disgusted him.

"That's O.K.," Macalister said, as though he understood.

"Come on," he said, as though talking to a naif.