What is shown on television is, as it were, a reflection of what society is like.

Tom lived in a dream world. Often, as it were, only his body was among us, while his mind was quite somewhere else.

He is, as it were, a grown up baby.

Your idea is, as it were, a castle in the air.

He is a Japanese Edison, as it were.

He is, as it were, a stray sheep.

It is true that every day has its own evil, and its good too. But how difficult must life be, especially farther on when the evil of each day increases as far as worldly things go, if it is not strengthened and comforted by faith. And in Christ all worldly things may become better, and, as it were, sanctified. Theo, woe is me if I do not preach the Gospel; if I did not aim at that and possess faith and hope in Christ, it would be bad for me indeed, but no I have some courage.

As it were, the problem is solved.

Just as it sometimes happens that deformed offspring are produced by deformed parents, and sometimes not, so the offspring produced by a female are sometimes female, sometimes not, but male, because the female is as it were a deformed male.

They are, as it were, victims of the war.