Usage of "play as if"

portuguès

Loosley structure of play using imagination and sometimes role-play.

Sinònims

Examples for "make believe"

The coordinate system is just make believe, you know, like Peter Pan. 
 Wired 

This man will make believe he is doing it for the minister. 
 Magic seeds 

Of course it was absurd to try to make believe any longer. 
 Carnacki, the Ghost Finder 

She could make believe before the world, but not alone with Rudyard. 
 The Judgment House 

Then I'll be the Ringmaster and make believe they are doing tricks. 
 The Story of a Nodding Donkey 

This Young Wizard's Handbook is like a map for pretend play. 
 Wired 

The building seems completely secondary to the pretend play experience. 
 Wired 

This set of 20 tins comes in four sizes and would be great for a number of activities, including pretend play, stacking, dumping, and sorting. 
 NY Magazine 

Apps like Toca Tea Party and Toca Store encourage pretend play, and my daughter never gets enough of the hairstyling fun in Toca Hair Salon. 
 Wired 

The kiddies were standing back shyly, patently interrupted in their pretended play of trundling the wheelbarrow and dragging the stick horses over the yard. 
 The Thunder Bird 

The house bought on make-believe; the house that a penny dreadful built. 
 The sherlockian 

But he thought it was all make-believe, just a young girl's imagination. 
 Running with the Demon 

Her make-believe portraits of spam mail senders a case of the latter. 
 Wired 

Children, who love to play make-believe, have a natural inclination toward theatre. 
 The Irish Times 

The fun, make-believe stories they shared still resonate with us decades later. 
 The South African 

Ús de play as if en anglès

Or role- play as if you're doing the thing you most desire now. 
 Ebony 

I continued to play as if I didn't see them at all. 
 Suck it, wonder woman!: the misadventures of a hollywood geek 

They began to play as if they had spent their lives together. 
 In the Closed Room 

Although sometimes they do play as if they're not recognisable to each other. 
 The Guardian 

Krafft continued to play as if nothing had been said. 
 Maurice Guest 

These childhood friends play as if the tunes are entwined in a single DNA helix. 
 The Irish Times 

When it was all pretend and maybe, I could swagger, and play as if I. . 
 To the blight: the eye of the world 

He watched its graceful play as if hypnotized, and began babbling to himself in an incoherent prattle. 
 O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 

Were I you, I would then go to the Chocolate-House, and play as if nothing had happened. 
 The Virginians 

Then we shall have it ever in mind to play as if in the presence of a master. 
 Music Talks with Children 

But I'll tell you this: I'm letting you play as if you had all the cards in the deck. 
 Ronicky Doone 

Then they turned to their play as if she were not worth noticing, and poor little Timid Hare blushed for shame. 
 Timid Hare: The Little Captive 

But he told me himself that this was all in fun, so I treated his play as if it were a comedy. 
 The Sea-Gull 

But I knew I'd have to play as if there was never an operation - and that would be the hardest part. 
 The Guardian 

Try to decide on your discards before it's your turn to play , and then calmly play as if you don't have any problem. 
 The cardturner 

The Soft Pack: a band formerly known as The Muslims who play as if their life and lift back home depend on it. 
 The Irish Times 

Translations for play as if

portuguès

jogo de criança zuação brincadeira brincar zoação aloprar

Llengua d'interfície

Significats de play as if en anglès