Example sentences for: were--

How can you use “were--” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • One wonders if the papers would have been this low-key if it were--Qaddafi, say--standing almost alone against the world in clinging to a maiming technology.

  • as it were--I assume they would have let me go home, but I would have been forbidden to board the plane and would have missed my meeting.

  • In the northern Mexican states, especially Sonora, these ropes used to lasso animals from on horseback sometimes are--or anyway were-- woven of strands of rawhide, which is elastic.


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