Sentence examples for trying as if from inspiring English sources

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A dozen handsome Egyptian vultures stood by, insouciant but attentive, like waiters trying, as if by will, to get the last diners to leave.

Like the story of just keeping trying, as if we all have endless resources, thank you Bobbie Thomas for breaking this silence.

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If tried as juvenile.

Gosh, I tried!," as if she were doing her audience's bidding but at the same time apologizing to a fellow-celebrity.

Once out of jail, Teena Brandon again tried, as if nothing had happened, to pass herself off as Brandon and lead a social life as an unemployed young man about Falls City.

Irish picked up only their second bonus point of the season in the defeat by Worcester last weekend but dropped passes cost them three tries as if the threat of relegation and what it would mean was getting to the players.

He credited his proposals with his possible election as president, as if trying, as best he could, to claim a mandate of sorts.

Mum says I'm allowed to score a try - as if - but that's about it.

Often feeling adrift, Ms. Gainsbourg says that she got little direction from Mr. von Trier, "as if he hadn't written the screenplay.

The visitors scored the opening try as if to make a fight of it, but by the end the futility of their task was reflected in the tailing off of their efforts and Llanelli triumphed 34-25 to end the matter.

And Miliband kept saying "If I'm prime minister," as if trying to convince himself as much as us.

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