Sentence examples for was if not from inspiring English sources

"In 2005, it was, if not Ratzinger, who?

In life, Edith was, if not emasculating, at least tough.

But Lohan was, if not tremendous, a minor revelation.

"He was, if not exonerated, never proven guilty," Elizabeth Hecht said in an interview on Thursday.

That day the demise of Baranchinsky's factory was, if not averted, postponed for the foreseeable future.

It was, if not a seismic upset, then a big one.

In many parts of the United States, the death penalty was, if not outlawed, abandoned.

But Miller's submissiveness in games of bondage was, if not illusory, paradoxical.

Back in the nineteen-eighties, Anvil was, if not huge, on the verge of hugeness.

In the rewriting, the timing issue was, if not lost, then certainly blurred.

I knew that I had to be what he was, if not better".