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Sentences ending with seem

Prince Andrew's eyes were closed, so weary and sleepy did he seem. [2]
Many of these Victoria parried, and she came rapidly to the conclusion that Mr. Arthur Rangely was a more astute person than--to a casual observer he would seem. [9]
At first nobody thought they would live a day, such little absurd attempts at humanity did they seem. [6]
It was as though some angel touched the elbow of her spirit and said: "Stay on, for things will be better than they seem. [11]
Things aren't what they seem. [13]
It has paid thee well, so it would seem. [11]
Was it altogether so melancholy as it might seem? [4]
I said, "Indeed, sir, things are not as bad as they seem. [5]
How does he seem? [9]
Neither was he satisfied to set down everything to the account of insanity, plausible as that supposition might seem. [6]

Short sentences using seem

It does seem too cruel! [8]
I rather seem to scoff. [11]
It doesn't seem to go. [5]
I seem not to be. [11]
It would seem so. [5]
Does not that seem reasonable? [5]
It did not seem possible. [11]
They seem somehow responsible. [4]
We must seem perfectly crazy. [8]
It doth seem passing strange. [5]

Sentences containing seem two or more times

Of course it will seem long to wait--very long; but when it is over, and we are together again, I think it will seem as if we had never been parted. [10]
She knew how strange it would seem to the rest of the world, yet it did not seem strange to her. [11]
It used to seem a very impolite, not to say a rude, question, for Elisha to ask the woman, but it does not seem so to me now. [5]
He did not seek her; he tried not to seem to avoid her, or to seem to shun the streets where he was most likely to meet her, and the neighborhoods she frequented. [4]
But though I may seem strange, may seem eccentric, I mean to refrain from punning upon the name of this club, though I could make a very good one if I had time to think about it--a week. [5]
Why should the little white houses of the prosperous little villages on the line of the rail seem cold and suggest winter, and the land seem scrimped and without an atmosphere? [4]
She thought: "If I seem not to notice he will think that I do not sympathize with him; if I seem sad and out of spirits myself, he will say (as he has done before) that I'm in the dumps. [2]
They seem to be good friends, and form a very pleasing pair when they walk in arm in arm; nearly enough alike to seem to belong together, different enough to form an agreeable contrast. [6]

More example sentences with the word seem in them

The consequences for you, I mean, which you do not seem to have taken into account. [9]
But I assure you, dear sir, that if I seem to be 'infesting the widow,' it is all seeming, and void of reality. [5]
My love for you, damnable as it would seem in the world's eyes, prevents it. [11]
Yet I tell you that, heavy as your losses may seem, Spargapises, Tomyris and fifty thousand Massagetae can never outweigh the spirit of one king of Persia, least of all of a Cyrus. [10]
All through it you seem to see the pomps of war and hear the rumbling of the drums. [5]
But it made you seem sorrowfully trivial, and the creature of a day, and such a short and paltry day, too. [5]
But, pardon me, you seem somehow different from what you were at Fortress Monroe, or even at lovely Atlantic City," this with a rather forced laugh. [4]
But at times you seem so--indifferent, and you can't understand how it hurts. [9]
And then again you seem as cold as your New England snow, you have no feeling, you are an Anglo-Saxon--a Puritan. [9]
Separation, of which you say so much that is bad, does not seem to have had its usual effect on you. [2]
But, Mr. Morgan, you don't seem to understand what civilization is. [4]
Excuse me, but you do seem a little tired, and unless you're very anxious to get on--' 'Yes, yes, we are,' returned the old man fretfully. [12]
But I suppose you couldn't help lookin' at my gal--she does seem to draw men's eyes as if she was magnetized some way. [9]
The fact that you could not seem to feel it stimulated me. [9]
I said: "Manuel, you are evidently Indian, but you seem to have a Spanish name when you put it all together. [5]
Graciously look over yonder, Your Highness; does it not seem as if the wood fairy herself had laid by the roadside for your illustrious Majesty the fairest flowers that bloom in field and forest, mere and moss? [10]
And now, a year later, when I read the cablegrams I seem to be reading of what I myself partly saw--saw before it happened--in a prophetic dream, as it were. [5]
There, I was wrong to be indignant in your presence,--you who seem to have spent your life in trying to get others out of difficulties. [9]
Meanwhile I had written to Miss Bronte to tell her the delight with which her book filled me; and seem to have sermonised her, to judge from her reply. [14]
The prosperity they would seem to indicate is a pretence. [5]
The word impassioned would seem misplaced, if applied to any of Mr. Emerson's orations. [6]
My own history would really seem so tame contrasted with that of my ancestors, that it is simply wisdom to leave it unwritten until I am hanged. [5]
That this intimacy would have resulted in marriage, or an offer of marriage, if the lady's affections had not been preoccupied, the Fosters seem to have believed. [4]
In Italy, the works of mediaeval Art seem to be of yesterday,--Rome, under her kings, is but an intruding newcomer, as we contemplate her in the shadow of the Cyclopean walls of Fiesole or Volterra. [6]
The commission, whose work I am considering, seem to have proceeded upon a totally different idea. [7]
The law of work does seem utterly unfair--but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, also. [5]
The mourning she wore made her seem even taller. [9]
Piegan ponies are wonders in a storm- seem to know their way by instinct. [11]
It is a wonderful thing to be so celebrated; yet look at him; it makes no change in him; he does not even seem to know it. [5]
So do not wonder that you seem a dear friend to me who has never even seen you. [5]
To wrong one woman should seem enough for one lifetime! [11]
The best and wisest has his defects, and sometimes they would seem to be very grave ones if brought up against him in the form of accusation. [6]
Its hidden motive will illustrate a but-little considered fact in human nature; that the religious folly you are born in you will die in, no matter what apparently reasonabler religious folly may seem to have taken its place meanwhile, and abolished and obliterated it. [5]
The best scheme will have the preference; and you seem to me to be the man to win the prize, and, with it, a wide and noble field of work in the future. [10]
All fixed stars will be respected by us, but such stars as seem, to need fixing we shall fix. [5]
Involuntarily recalling his wife's past and her relations with Dolokhov, Pierre saw clearly that what was said in the letter might be true, or might at least seem to be true had it not referred to his wife. [2]
And Mrs. Pomfret, who, remarkable as it may seem, not only recognized Austen without her lorgnette, but quite overwhelmed him with an unexpected cordiality, and declared her intention of giving them a dinner in New York. [9]
I know people who have seem it ten times; they know the most of it by heart; they do not tire of it; and they say they shall still be quite willing to go and sit under its spell whenever they get the opportunity. [5]
The modest Northerners who have got hold of it, and staked it all out into city lots, seem to want to keep it all to themselves. [4]
For a good while I couldn't seem to get at a clear comprehension of it, it was so tangled. [5]
The modern world, which was our generation, would seem to be cut off from all that preceded it as with a descending knife. [9]
If certain things, which seem to me essential to a millennium, had come to pass, I should have been frightened; but they haven't. [6]
The proverbs, of which his talk was full, were for the most part not the coarse and indecent saws soldiers employ, but those folk sayings which taken without a context seem so insignificant, but when used appositely suddenly acquire a significance of profound wisdom. [2]
The place through which he made his way at leisure was one of those receptacles for old and curious things which seem to crouch in odd corners of this town and to hide their musty treasures from the public eye in jealousy and distrust. [12]
The sad news which fills all Naukratis does not seem to disturb you much. [10]
Without you, or when something comes between us like this, I seem lost and can't do anything. [2]
Submission, courage, exertion, when practicable--these seem to be the weapons with which we must fight life's long battle. [14]
On the occasion when he had quoted a verse of poetry to them, one of them said to him with a sidelong glance: "You seem to be dead-struck on Nature, Ingolby. [11]
For, after all, what is Theophile Benoist, that I should seem to be afraid of him? [5]
No matter at what hour of day or night a train may arrive or depart at a country station in America, the loafers are so invariably there in waiting that they seem to be a part of our railway system. [4]
Daly and Clemens were old friends, and it would seem that Daly could hardly have escaped seeing the play when it was going the rounds. [5]
Not because they were not interesting--for they were; but inasmuch as the man was not found, after all, it did not seem wise to harass and excite the reader to no purpose. [5]
Why, when we were in New York here on our wedding journey the place didn't seem half so dirty as it does now, and none of these dismal things happened. [8]
But the chances were I should not have developed it, since it would seem that any salvation for me at least must come precisely through suffering, through not getting what I wanted. [9]
Though the streets were full, the town did not seem any less deserted; and the early marketers had only come to life for a day, revisiting the places that once they thronged. [4]
And, when we were alone, my plain speaking did not seem to anger him, or affect him in any way. [9]
As her dream went on she called him and called him again, but for a long time he did not seem to hear her. [10]
Why did leaden weights seem to hang upon her soul when she attempted to soar upward? [10]
She felt extreme weariness, yet somehow it did not seem to be of her body. [13]
At the time we seem to be injuring no one but ourselves; but, as we live on, we find that we were wronging whomsoever should come into our lives in the future. [11]
In the West we don't use anything like so much slang as you seem to use in New York. [9]
That is the way with those Goobra people--they can't seem to let a chance go by to throw it in your face that their day is three hundred and twenty-two of our years long. [5]
Such is the way in which the Germans seem to define the word "rest"; that is to say, they rest a member by recreating, recuperating, restore its forces. [5]
In this latter way did she seem to lay her hand upon the lives of Philip d'Avranche and Guida Landresse. [11]
And those flashing, watchful eyes, they seem to read through you, and to say, 'Who are you? [11]
And indeed it was; he tried not to seem to see the looks or hear the remarks as he passed along, but they were food and drink to him. [5]
Of course, it was very nice of Mr. Wetmore to be so honest, but it did not always seem to be the wisest thing. [8]
What amazed me was that he did not seem to be shocked by the revelation near as much as I had feared. [9]
What struck him was that Denisov did not seem glad to see him, and smiled at him unnaturally. [2]
The gunner, too, was sick unto death, but "hope of trucking" kept him on his feet,--a Yankee, it should seem, when he first touched the shore of New England. [3]
You see, he was pretty old, and George's g'yirls was too young to be much company for him, except Mary Jane, the red-headed one; and so he was kinder lonesome after George and his wife died, and didn't seem to care much to live. [5]
This continued patronage was not a conscious expression of superiority on my part, but he did not seem to resent it. [9]
But this mood was no more favorable than the other for beginning a new life, nor did there seem to be, as he went along, any need of it. [4]
The transformation, indeed, was more remarkable than he could have believed possible, for respectability itself would seem to have been regained by a costume, and the abundance of her remarkable hair was now repressed. [9]
Although the month was March, it was one of those wonderful still nights that sometimes come in the mountain-country when the wind is silent in the notches and the stars seem to burn nearer to the earth. [9]
Yes, the world was larger, larger, by one, and it would seem large--her image came to him distinctly--if she were the only one. [4]
I'm sorry I was blue, but it did seem as if everything had been going against us for whole ages. [5]
Now that he was already an officer and a wounded hero, would it be right to remind him of herself and, as it might seem, of the obligations to her he had taken on himself? [2]
I thought that was a sort of a queer thing for Flint's daughter to do, but Austen didn't seem to look at it that way. [9]
How the grim warriors of the past seem flocking in ghostly squadrons to their ancient battlefield again--how the wails of the dying well up from the--" At this point the horse called Oahu sat down in the sand. [5]
We elected to walk upright, for convenience's sake; we argued that if discerned, we should be taken for friends rather than enemies, and in any case we should be out of reach of swords, and these gentry did not seem to have any spears along. [5]
For the barrister's voice was not as strong as it once was, and the cold would not seem to lift from his chest. [9]
Dr. Fuller's two visits to Salem, at the request of Governor Endicott, seem to have been very satisfactory to that gentleman. [3]
According to this view the power of historical personages, represented as the product of many forces, can no longer, it would seem, be regarded as a force that itself produces events. [2]
All of the vestry would seem to have arrived at once. [9]
In releasing the vessel, the ragamuffins seem to have had a touch of humor, for they gave the captain a "receipt" for what they had taken, and an order on the British consul at Messina to pay for the same. [4]
It may be very wrong to pay any attention to those speculations about the origin of mankind which seem to conflict with the Sacred Record. [6]
I get along very well without the luxury and the wealth and the sort of society I've been accustomed to, but I do miss the respect and can't seem to get reconciled to the absence of it. [5]
She has a very sweet voice; rather hesitates in choosing her expressions, but when chosen they seem without an effort admirable, and just befitting the occasion; there is nothing overstrained, but perfectly simple. [14]
Occasionally I hear very sweet strains of music,--whether of a wind or stringed instrument, or a human voice, strange as it may seem, I have often tried to find out, but through the partition I could not be quite sure. [6]
It was not very reassuring, what he had to tell; in fact, it was somewhat depressing, the general tightness and the panicky uncertainty, until, after a couple of glasses of Scotch, the financial world began to open a little and seem more hopeful. [4]
You do not very much dislike to work, and still you do not work much merely because it does not seem to you that you could get much for it. [7]
He is a very knowing young man, but I can't think he is foolish enough, to say nothing of his honesty, to make any false step of the kind you seem to hint. [6]
I must seem very ignorant to you; but you must try to overlook that, because I have never had any experience of such a swell duel as this before. [5]
That don't seem very far out of the way now, do it? [12]
This is a very convenient infirmity for gentlemen who indulge in slightly aggressive remarks, but when they are hit back never seem to be conscious at all of the _riposte_,--the return thrust of the fencer. [6]
It occurred to Venters then that Wrangle had drunk his fill, and did not seem the worse for it, and might be anything but easy to catch. [13]
These differences or variations seem to be induced by the same general causes, and to obey the same laws as with the lower animals. [1]
What those people valued was _high wages_; it didn't seem to be a matter of any consequence to them whether the high wages would buy anything or not. [5]
You seem as vague as your essayist. [4]

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