Use "as one might say" in a sentence

1. All these painful preoccupations about the car were of course, as one might say, just the tip of the iceberg

2. When Ruth looked back upon that dreadful time she saw it, as one might say, surrounded by a halo of religion

3. One morning, when Boulatruelle was on his way to his work, at daybreak, he had been surprised to see, at a nook of the forest in the underbrush, a shovel and a pickaxe, concealed, as one might say

4. Jean Valjean had this peculiarity, that he carried, as one might say, two beggar's pouches: in one he kept his saintly thoughts; in the other the redoubtable talents of a convict