At the end of each day my pigskin leggings were like wet brown paper with sweat, and my hands crinkled and bleached as though they had been in a soda bath.
They ran after us like happy children, as though they had been lagging.
She sent out for one of those short, plump little cakes called 'petites madeleines,' which look as though they had been moulded in the fluted scallop of a pilgrim's shell.
They were dressed in ordinary cowboy fashion and rode as though they had been born to the saddle.
All eyes were fixed in astonishment on the visitors, who blushed as though they had been detected in a fault.
The two lazos tightened with a twang, as though they had been guitar-strings; and in a moment the unfortunate bull was rolling with all his legs in the air, in the midst of a whirlwind of dust.
They danced exceedingly well, and behaved as though they had been used to European ball-rooms all their lives.
As Redgy afterwards described it, it was like as though they had been a lot of marbles thrown into a bag, and then shaken up.
At all events, they broke upon us without our having had any suspicion of their being in our neighbourhood, bursting through the thick mimosas round us, as though they had been so many bulrushes.
For in truth they were half starved, and they swallowed down the puddings as though they had been oysters.
She and Claes laboured together in the field, yoking themselves to the plough as though they had been oxen.
And now they all began to throw him chunks of bread as though they had been balls, and Ulenspiegel did not cease from talking and from eating, astride as he was on the branch.
But the butchers, together with Lamme and Ulenspiegel, thrust their knives quickly back into their cases, and sprang up to run nimbly through the chamber, hitting out right and left with their chairs as though they had been cudgels.
She dropped the gold and the scrap of paper as though they had been red-hot cinders, and stood looking at them as if she expected them to speak.
It was empty, most of the candles had gutted out, the remains of food were scattered here and there, the mugs lay about, as though they had been emptied in a hurry and dropped.
Their hair was clotted, their shirts were drenched as though they had been dipped in the beck.
He remembered an evening on which the hotel visitors had disappeared from the piano-room one after another, as though they had been conscious of their duty to leave him alone with her.
Mr. A seemed to think the more the merrier, and his pretty little meeting-houses looked as though they had been baked in the lot, like a sheet of biscuits; while Rev.
They scarcely spoke to each other once during the meal, yet their eyes met almost as frequently as though they had been conversing.
They looked as though they had been torn up like this for rib-roller bandages, for they were just of that width.
Deck was not his own brother, only his cousin, though the fraternal feeling had always been as warm and earnest as though they had been born of the same father and mother.
The horses had been watered and fed, and they were in fair condition, though they had been on the march all day.
Most of the men were at least spotted with gore, and some of them looked as though they had been at work in a slaughter-house.
The wedding party disappeared in the third story window with the hose, in the smoke, and after half an hour's work they came out looking as though they had been in the Ashtabula railroad accident.
And then they all went off the stage as though they had been having a regular fight, and Brignoli acted as though he would like to eat her raw.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "though they had been" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
