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How to use as it were in a sentence

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This was just a few years after Lord Byron woke to find Child Harold's Pilgrimage in the bookshops and himself famous, as it were, overnight.
We are naked, as it were, under the glinting gaze of waitrons and sales staffs across America.
It ought to make its judicature, as it were, something exterior to the State.
Hearing these expressions the audience is, as it were, invited to read the scene informed by an Africanist perspective.
They were being herded, corralled, and lassoed, as it were, by high-tech means.
Something has gone amiss with him and that, for England, has been, as it were, the crux.
Life there seemed so rich and full, and I was enjoying it all so much and on the way up, as it were, in my career.
There is nothing humble in living below our best, apologizing, as it were, for our existence.
I see there are also websites run by ex-vegans, apostates as it were, who left the fold chiefly for health reasons.
Now you will not have read this, so I am going to, as it were, just read out the bits which are applicable.
I guess economists can be a bit specialized but I was once a High School economics teacher so I speak the lingo, as it were.
Coming of age, as it were, as the business model replaced earlier social models, they bought into the business model lock, stock, and barrel.
Like racoons, they have found niches in urban areas, living in our trash, as it were.
Also in Eire, there's a scheme for paying a living wage to artists once they have proved themselves, as it were.
Instead of me trying to get inside Harry's head, as it were, he started getting inside mine.
I was feeling truly at odds with the world, in it, but not of it, as it were.
All it seems to do, though, is set out a number of procedural steps, as it were.
It is clearly more powerful if you can identify a trend, because one rises above the individual dispute, as it were.
Some of the young stags early in a hunt may turn and stand at bay for short periods as a sort of posturing, as it were, to the hounds.
This book, not scholarly by any manner of means, takes us on a cultural excursion, as it were.
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Examples from Classical Literature
But it is impossible to pass by the objection to theology which comes as it were ab intra from the side of religion.
We want our magnet to project, as it were, its force across the greatest length of air gap.
But aja caught her in his arms, and kissed her yet again, as it were against her will.
The cathedral empties itself, as it were, into the alameda just after morning mass.
The disintegrated mass of rabbits commenced, as it were, to solidify, to coagulate.
But this romanticism is, as it were, a segment of the larger circle of idealism.
Thus he looks down, as it were, upon the heaviest seas, and this greatly diminishes their apparent magnitude and elevation.
In apterous beetles the elytra are often connate, or have both sutures as it were soldered together.
And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armorbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were half an acre of land.
Gwaednerth made his enemies, as it were, pay him this tribute with the gold of their armour.
The horizon was growing indistinct, assuming a mud-colored tinge as it were.
The theory is not a thing complete from the first, but a thing which grows, as it were asymptotically, towards certainty.
With this and aureolin a series of beautiful foliage tints may be formed, sparkling with sunshine, as it were.
Situated as it were in the centre of this austral Ocean, the future highway of the world, it is accessible from all quarters.
That short thoroughfare forms, as it were, a backwash for the traffic of Piccadilly.
By barrack and camp life the normal civilian intellect is, as it were, marooned.
Still it rejoiced him to hear the noble truths of democracy delivered as it were from the bema.
He has raised us to partake, as it were, in the ubiquity of his own beneficence.
They sat a buckjumper as a child sits a swing, and seemed to be horsemasters as it were by instinct.
Nothing prevented him paying a friendly call to Mr Verloc, casually as it were.
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