まるで
Meanings
Adverb
Usually written in kana
1. quite; entirely; completely; at all
2. as if; as though; just like
Pitch accent
るで
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Composed of
circle; entirety; whole; money; dough; enclosure inside a castle's walls; soft-shelled turtle
Used in vocabulary (1 in total)
to enclose (a word, letter, symbol, etc.) with a circle
Examples (64 in total)
I can't sleep at all!
It's just like walking on the moon.
I felt as if I were dreaming.
This dictionary is completely useless.
The lake's surface is almost like a mirror.
It looks as if it's going to rain.
Tom and I are like two peas in a pod.
Because he was just like a child, he yielded to temptation.
This room looks like a pigsty.
She speaks as if she were a teacher.
Your idea differs entirely from mine.
She looked as if she had been ill.
It is as if the whole sky were on fire.
Tom talks as if he were a teacher.
He speaks as if he were an American.
It looked as if we were on the eve of a revolution.
He treats me as if I were a stranger.
This toilet paper is like sandpaper.
He lives as if he were a millionaire.
The boy talks as if he were a girl.
He speaks as if he knew everything.
It seems like he had never met his father before.
She looks as if nothing had happened to her.
She speaks as if she had really been in France.
The English language surrounds us like a sea.
He speaks Japanese as if he were Japanese.
He looks like a completely different person to what he was before.
He acts as if he were a king.
She talked as if she were my mother.
The woman speaks as if she were a teacher.
Ken talks as if he knew everything.
That school looks just like a prison.
Japanese pears look just like apples.
It was like watching a slow motion movie.
Just as if that was proof that that was correct English.
Tim writes as if he were left-handed.
Betty talks as if she knew everything.
You look as if you had seen a ghost.
Sometimes he acted as if he were my boss.
Mr. Wright speaks Japanese like a native speaker.
The thief disguised himself as a policeman.
What that politician said is not at all true.
That child talks as if he were an adult.
She had no idea how to set about her work.
He speaks English as fluently as if he were an American.
The people followed the dictator like so many sheep.
It seems like yesterday that we skated together.
He's rich, but he lives like a beggar.
Jody looks as if she had seen a ghost.
The foreigner speaks Japanese as if it were his native language.
She was only a shadow of her former self after her illness.
That foreigner spoke Japanese as if it were his native language.
Why do you talk about him as if he were an old man?
She talks as if she knew everything about it.
The sky became as dark as if the sun had sunk.
She talks about Paris as if she had been there many times.
It seems as if everything he touches turns to gold.
I remember the event as vividly as if it were just yesterday.
That statue is truly amazing. It's looking at us as if it were alive.
My wife spends money as if I were the richest man in town.
Your eyes are like corals, dazzling and very pretty.
He told me about the accident as if he had seen it with his own eyes.
He looked as if he had not eaten for days.
The boy talks as if he were a great scholar.