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    Use "just as though" in a sentence

    just as though example sentences

    just as though


    1. ’ I said, feeling just as though I have woken up after a bad dream … all shaky and unsure of what is real and what is not


    2. Then, in the next few seconds, this myriad of figures withdrew back into the light, just as though they were being dragged or sucked by a force pulling at them beyond their own control


    3. When he moved it was in staggered slow-mo, leaving behind an after-image trail, just as though his own time was slowing


    4. Thus the skillful general conducts his army just as though he were leading a single man, willy-nilly, by the hand


    5. Just as though a live wire had hit me and ignited all my senses


    6. face to face in the astral world and converse with him just as though they


    7. " And, just as though an inner voice were dictating


    8. on just as though nothing at all had ever happened


    9. about just as though he is fully clothed in his very best tailored


    10. It was just as though he was in a sphere of glass travelling along through the clear water

    11. "It is just as though they have been spirited away


    12. It was just as though he had always known it


    13. it's just as though it never happened


    14. If he didn't look at her, it was just as though his lost Fanny were there, close to him again, in the low chair by the little table with violets on it


    15. just as though they had they had sold their securities on that day


    16. ‘Three people have used that very phrase about Kaulbach to me today already, just as though they had made a compact about it


    17. Before there was you—and THIS too,’ he added with a glance towards her waist that she understood— ‘I put all my energies into work; now I can’t, and I’m ashamed; I do it just as though it were a task set me, I’m pretending


    18. He looked at the princess, who had been so dear to him a minute before, and he did not like the manner in which she welcomed this Vassenka, with his ribbons, just as though she were in her own house


    19. I returned home completely upset, it was just as though some crime were lying on my conscience


    20. He went on with his singing, just as though we had not been present

    21. I had seen a sailor who had visited that very island, and he told me that it was the custom, when a great battle had been gained there, to barbecue all the slain in the yard or garden of the victor; and then, one by one, they were placed in great wooden trenchers, and garnished round like a pilau, with breadfruit and cocoanuts; and with some parsley in their mouths, were sent round with the victor's compliments to all his friends, just as though these presents were so many Christmas turkeys


    22. And how long ago is it since you said the very contrary? Didn't you once say that whatever ship Ahab sails in, that ship should pay something extra on its insurance policy, just as though it were loaded with powder barrels aft and boxes of lucifers forward? Stop, now; didn't you say so?"


    23. "Three people have used that very phrase about Kaulbach to me today already, just as though they had made a compact about it


    24. It's just as though one's second self were standing beside


    25. “Would you believe it that ever since that scene with her, I have thought of nothing else but my youthful greenness, and just as though you guessed that, you begin about it


    26. One can hear the singing in church and the deacon reads so plainly and verbally that it will reach him every time just as though it were read over his grave


    27. And whenever the cross touched his lips, the eyes would open for a moment, and the legs moved once, and he kissed the cross greedily, hurriedly—just as though he were anxious to catch hold of something in case of its being useful to him afterwards, though he could hardly have had any connected religious thoughts at the time


    28. The women condemned her too, and looked at her contemptuously, just as though she were some loathsome insect


    29. Gania did not stand on ceremony with the prince; he behaved just as though he were alone in his room


    30. “Lvovitch,” repeated the general without the slightest haste, and with perfect confidence, just as though he had not committed himself the least in the world, but merely made a little slip of the tongue

    31. Then why was he so overwhelmed now, having seen them as he expected? just as though he had not expected to see them! Yes, they were the very same eyes; and no doubt about it


    32. She was sitting with you just as though there had been no row at all


    33. Hippolyte, who had fallen asleep during Lebedeff’s discourse, now suddenly woke up, just as though someone had jogged him in the side


    34. “What time is it? Tell me, quick, for goodness’ sake! How long have I slept?” he added, almost in despair, just as though he had overslept something upon which his whole fate depended


    35. “I don’t love you a bit!” she said suddenly, just as though the words had exploded from her mouth


    36. “Oh—h—h! You mean the four hundred roubles!” said Lebedeff, dragging the words out, just as though it had only just dawned upon him what the prince was talking about


    37. What have you stopped her for, just as though you didn’t take in what I said? Why are you crying, father?”


    38. And not only does a Russian ‘become an Atheist,’ but he actually believes in Atheism, just as though he had found a new faith, not perceiving that he has pinned his faith to a negation


    39. To my surprise Shatov spoke aloud, just as though she were not in the room


    40. You begged me yourself to postpone, to give you time, not to say you ‘No,’ to study you better, and ‘then,’ you said, ‘then, when you know what a fine fellow I am, perhaps you will not refuse me!’ These were your own words, or very like them, at the very beginning of your courtship!—you cannot deny them! And now you dare to tell me that I ‘lured you into my net,’ just as though you did not notice my expression of loathing when you made your appearance this morning! You came a fortnight sooner than I expected you, and I did not hide my disgust; on the contrary, I made it evident—you must have noticed it—I know you did; because you asked me whether I was angry because you had come sooner than you promised! Let me tell you that people who do not, and do not care to, hide their loathing for a man can hardly be accused of luring that man into their net! You dare to tell me that I was keeping you in reserve! Very well; my answer to that is, that I judged of you like this: ‘Though he may not be endowed with much intellect, still he may turn out to be a good enough fellow; and if so, it might be possible to marry him

    41. He regularly went through the ceremony of wondering how he could bring himself to eat “such nastiness,” and yet as regularly he demolished every morsel, and with excellent show of appetite too, just as though he had eaten nothing for three days


    42. I don't know—there's something about his look—There I go again! What the devil have I got to do with his look? what a fool I am—just as though I could not live without the dirty little wretch—curse him!”


    43. “Then I'll scream, sir, I'll scream!” giggled Pavel Pavlovitch, as merrily as ever, just as though the whole thing was a joke


    44. No sooner did Velchaninoff, in despair, begin to assure her as tenderly as he could that what she desired was impossible, than she silently closed her eyes and said not another word, just as though she neither saw nor heard him


    45. He started up just as though someone had struck him, and sat down on the side of his bed


    46. Velchaninoff was entreated to appear entirely unconscious when Pavel Pavlovitch should appear again, just as though nothing whatever had happened


    47. Even those whom he had ceased to bow to, when met, were now among the first to extend the hand of friendship once more, and asked no questions—just as though he had been abroad on private business, which was no affair of theirs


    48. He gazed in amazement and dread at Velchaninoff, falling back before him just as though he saw a ghost


    49. When I got up, there was much blood on the snow, just as though a sheep had been killed, and over my eyes the flesh hung in rags


    50. Just as though every man could not find this out for himself much more accurately and more speedily, by taking counsel of his reason and his conscience



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