The word “as” is a versatile word that can function as a conjunction, preposition, or adverb. It is commonly used to indicate comparison, role, cause, or time. Writers use it to connect ideas, show likeness, or introduce explanations and conditions. The examples below are drawn from authentic works to show how “as” appears in real writing.
Real Sentences for As
So far as I can recollect I have always been a man, a man of about thirty.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
17 words, 74 characters
My name is John Carter; I am better known as Captain Jack Carter of Virginia.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
15 words, 77 characters
Notwithstanding this representation, I did not make up my mind to do as he suggested.
Source: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe
15 words, 85 characters
He seemed to say it was not so simple as that; to be really at a loss how to qualify it.
Source: The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
21 words, 88 characters
They were in part peculiar indeed, but I have followed them to each last detail as faithfully as I was able.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
21 words, 108 characters
As to the details of his life during these years he was very reticent, in fact he would not talk of them at all.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
24 words, 112 characters
It was Tars Tarkas, and I could read his thoughts as they were an open book for the undisguised loathing upon his face.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
23 words, 119 characters
Possibly I am a hundred, possibly more; but I cannot tell because I have never aged as other men, nor do I remember any childhood.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
25 words, 130 characters
My last sight of Powell was about three in the afternoon as he entered the shadows of the range on the opposite side of the valley.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
26 words, 131 characters
The instructions impressed upon me that I must personally see that this was carried out just as he directed, even in secrecy if necessary.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
24 words, 138 characters
As Powell was familiar with the country, as well as with the mechanical requirements of mining we determined that it would be best for him to make the trip.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
29 words, 156 characters
A distrust in my own abilities as a writer was, nevertheless, one of the principal causes which prevented me from complying with the suggestions of my advisers.
Source: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe
27 words, 160 characters
For some reason this news did not surprise me, but I hurried out to his place as quickly as possible, so that I could take charge of the body and of his affairs.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
33 words, 161 characters
Upon my return to the United States a few months ago, after the extraordinary series of adventure in the South Seas and elsewhere, of which an account is given in the following pages, accident threw me into the society of several gentlemen in Richmond, VA, who felt deep interest in all matters relating to the regions I had visited, and who were constantly urging it upon me, as a duty, to give my narrative to the public.
Source: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe
77 words, 423 characters
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