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

Whereas the junction is more stiff or rigid, the nexus is more pliable; it is, as it were, animate or articulated.

It is, as it were, a life and death problem.

For instance, here is a portrait of a man at eight years old, another at fifteen, another at seventeen, another at twenty-three, and so on. All these are evidently sections, as it were, three-dimensional representations of his four-dimensioned being, which is a fixed and unalterable thing.

And when his brethren had bowed down to him, and he knew them, he spoke as it were to strangers, somewhat roughly, asking them: Whence came you? They answered: From the land of Canaan, to buy necessaries of life.

All these flowers are the works of Love: these plants and shrubs are his offspring. — Through him these rivers flow, and these zephyrs breathe. Whoever is smitten by him is struck, as it were, with madness.

That was, as it were, part of the job.

This computer network is, as it were, the nervous system of the company.

Our teacher is, as it were, a walking dictionary.

We sat, as it were, on a volcano.