Synonym: so to speak. Similar words: as it is, here and there, between, twentieth, fewer, power, lower, shower. Meaning: adv. as if it were really so.
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31. Moses is caught between two fires as it were: a faithless people and a vengeful Lord.
32. He shook religion out of her mind, as it were, and into the vacuum rushed something rather disagreeable.
33. Yet we all know that it goes on - under the counter, as it were.
34. See my house - try it on for size, as it were?
35. We do have a few glimpses, through the keyhole as it were.
36. The basic signals are the same but each area has, as it were, its own dialect of calls.
37. The State Licensing office determined Singer was the rightful owner, as it were, of the deactivated license.
38. The social structure in a particular environmental setting creates, as it were, religious expectations.
39. You set the scene, as it were, for your presentation and then proceed to follow the pattern laid down.
40. That made me, by birth as it were, a member of the Strauss family.
41. For recession-weary washers, lower bills may sound just as attractive as greener laundry - as it were.
42. The dying man should be surrounded by his friends and family, should make, as it were, a day of it.
43. It is not hard to see how these two phenomena might, as it were, assist an ice age on its way.
44. The punishment, as it were, is so severe that they redouble their efforts to avoid encountering it again.
45. Its still sparse population seems shrunk, as it were, in such outsize garments.
46. Instead of growing up, I had, as it were, grown down, and thus reversed a natural biological process.
47. The landowners lived centrally, and around them, in concentric circles as it were, lived the working people.
48. After the umpteenth rubber-stamp this infuriating rite of passage, as it were, terminates: exit.
49. He was, as it were a walking dictionary.
50. She is, as it were , a walking dictionary.
51. He is, as it were, an eternal boy.
52. He is, as it were, a modern Sherlock Holmes.http://sentencedict.com
53. He is, as it were, a bookworm.
54. He became his countrys spiritual leader, as it were.
55. The man is, as it were, a modern Holmes.
56. A friend is, as it were, a second self. - -- Cicero, Ancient Roman statesman.
57. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire.
58. Anna translated it, as it were , into Marion's normal voice.
59. While the soldiers were shouting, Kutuzov, bending forward in his saddle, bowed his head, and his eyes gleamed with a mild and, as it were, ironical light.
60. What the state and the revolutionaries controlling it, did not realise, however, is that by "bombing", as it were, Afrikaans and Afrikaans institutions, it would also bomb the rest.