As it were

With so much construction and renovation going on all around him, he was more or less living in a new city now, as it were. [His city is not newly founded, and it has been neither renamed nor moved, but in some practical way it is true that he does not live in the same city that he used to live in.]

God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the ſtrength of an Vnicorne.

Yet so strong is the parental ambition among those Polygons who are, as it were, on the fringe of the Circular class, that it is very rare to find a Nobleman of that position in society, who has neglected to place his first-born in the Circular Neo-Therapeutic Gymnasium before he has attained the age of a month.

[T]here was no very clear vision, to these people, of supra-mundane beings, sitting apart and ordaining the affairs of earth, as it were from a distance.

She gave all of the women seated at the restaurant food for thought, as it were.

Concerns that cloud seeding might “steal” water from an area a cloud is traveling toward—robbing Peter to water Paul, as it were—have been dispelled.

Scientists hope Crispr might also be used for genomic surgery, as it were, to correct errant genes that cause disease.

The Volkswagen diesel-emissions exploit was caused by a software failing, even if it seems to have been engineered, as it were, deliberately-

Congress ended the bracero program in 1964, and the next 15 years were the salad days, as it were, for farmworkers