Seemingly

//ˈsiːmɪŋli//

"Seemingly" in a Sentence (18 examples)

I think that against somebody like that, my seemingly clever techniques would be seen through and then I would be defeated.

It warms your heart when, while listening to a song in a (seemingly!) foreign language — Slovak, Macedonian, or Slovenian — you hear words that you have known since your childhood and even understand whole phrases.

The odds were seemingly insurmountable but he overcame them to win the presidency.

Some species are probably not domesticable--the polar bear comes to mind--others, seemingly unlikely--like the alligator--are being farmed today, although keeping them confined has turned out to be a bit of a problem.

And, though many people seemingly still have not noticed this, Esperanto is not a project anymore; it is a language.

Some birds indulge in aerobatics, seemingly for the sheer pleasure of doing so.

One of the two puppies running alongside the pram kept trying to catch the rotating left front wheel of the pram with its mouth, seemingly thinking it was a ball it could play with, and it was a miracle it did not hurt itself in the process.

There seemingly was an awful storm in the night. There must have been quite a commotion, but I didn't hear a thing.

Seemingly impossible things sometimes happen.

Sweatshop labor, rainforest destruction, global warming, displacement of indigenous communities, air and water pollution, eradication of wildlife on farmland as “pests”, the violent overthrow of popularly elected governments to maintain puppet dictators compliant to big business interests, open-pit strip mining, oil drilling in environmentally sensitive areas, union busting, child slavery, and payoffs to repressive regimes are just some of the many impacts of the seemingly innocuous consumer products we consume every day.

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[…] an object, seemingly like those which we have experienced, may be attended with different or contrary effects.

Mr. Woodhouse at last was off; but Mr. Knightley, instead of being immediately off likewise, sat down again, seemingly inclined for more chat. He began speaking of Harriet, and speaking of her with more voluntary praise than Emma had ever heard before.

Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.

He sacrificed nothing, laboring to get even the most seemingly insignificant element of every record perfect.

With rain lashing across the ground at kick-off and every man in Auckland seemingly either English-born or supporting Scotland, Eden Park was transformed into Murrayfield in March.

It was possibly chagrin at this neglect that caused James to omit the most ordinary courtesies to the few gentlemen who had behaved seemingly:[…].

[…]was restored to his throne but only on the understanding that he behave seemingly.

[…]they know the roles and statuses of deities, ancestral spirits, and men, and how to behave seemingly in their presence.

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