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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91. A deep and as it were secret sigh went through the Department.
92. After the first blush of sin comes its indifference; and from immoral it becomes, as it were, unmoral, and not quite unnecessary to that life which we have made.
93. Just for a bit, you know? Privy to, you know, cool information, as it were.
94. The soloist awakes as the orchestra departs, yawning in G minor as it were, and beginning a notorious five-minute cadenza.
95. This universe existed in the shape of darkness, unperceived , destitute of distinctive marks, unattainable by reasoning, unknowable, wholly immersed, as it were, in deep sleep.
96. So even if there were a Chinese government agent behind it, you know, it might represent a fragment of policy as it were.
97. Indeed, they sometimes dive below as it were by mistake, and are undeceived.
98. Over time Nansen came to "laugh at the ice; we are living as it were in an impregnable castle."
99. The two are distinct, soul being as it were the middle term between body and spirit, or the bond between the two.
100. With this customer, he felt himself , as it were, casting pearls before swine.
101. Knowing any man's mainspring of motive you have as it were the key to his will.
102. A friend is, as it were, a second self. ---- Marcus Tullius Cicero.
103. But with every instant he felt clearly and, as it were, tangibly , that something firm and unshakable as that vault of heaven had entered into his soul.
104. Many seem to regard human rights solely in terms of the guarantees they afford us as individuals: underwriting, as it were, the moral and cultural solipsism of the "me generation".
105. It is because of this rather petit cranium that its eyes and ears seem to appear so exaggeratedly large but rather than make the animal seem foolishly overdrawn (as it were), it adds to its appeal.
106. There are, at any point in time, a number of possible futures, each, as it were, a state of partial equilibrium.
107. He gets the solid shape, as it were, inside his head.
108. They will be able, as it were , to see and hear us in action.
109. To man time is given like a piece of land, as it were, entrusted to him for faithful tilling; a space in which to strive incessantly, achieve self-realization, more onward and upward.
110. Professor Smith is, as it were , a walking dictionary.
111. After Chinese traditional Latten Festival, given international flights in some of mainland airports have been almost looked by migrant workers, as it were, migrant worker chartered airplane.
112. The snow reprints it, as it were,[sentencedict.com] in clear white type alto - relievo.
113. Man is, as it were, sandwiched between heaven and earth, between idealism and realism, between lofty thoughts and the baser passions.
114. When he came back his dirty dishes were still in the sink as it were, there on the lab bench; but he noticed something weird about them.
115. In regard to such magnitudes the specific understanding of the sciences of human action is a substitute, as it were, for the unfeasibility of measurement.
116. He was lucky in the fact that opportunity tumbled into his lap, as it were.
117. This was, as it were, his unspoken apology to everyone.
118. Man is, as it were, sandwiched between heaven and earth, between idealism and realism, between lofty thoughts and baser passions.
119. In the long run everything that happens is, as it were, no more than the initial disturbance of a perpetual state of rest which forever attempts to re-establish itself.
120. That passage is often taken to be, the beginning of chapter 15, the essence of Machiavelli and realism, a kind of Realpolitik, as it were.