resemble

[ US /ɹiˈzɛmbəɫ, ɹɪˈzɛmbəɫ/ ]
[ UK /ɹɪsˈɛmbə‍l/ ]
VERB
  1. appear like; be similar or bear a likeness to
    She resembles her mother very much
    This paper resembles my own work
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How To Use resemble In A Sentence

  • Sons don’t resemble their fathers in every detail, I’ve noticed it time and time again, and there’s many a woman brought to bed of a son who is profoundly thankful for that fact, and expends a great deal of her postpartum energy assuring the sprog’s tata that the sprog is a dead ringer for her great-uncle Lucius Tiddlypuss. The First Man in Rome
  • After only a few minutes my normally florid complexion had begun to resemble Florida. Times, Sunday Times
  • The clinico-pathological features of this model resemble human peritoneal carcinomatosis. BioMed Central - Latest articles
  • Tuesday, 19 February 2008 first signs of spring - centre piece of the month february pick whatever flowers you get at the supermarket to make this little basket filled with flowers. ranunculus are my favourites and available all over the place at the moment, so i chose to put them into this flowery centrepiece. the orchid is quite fancy but you just really need one to pimp this up (and it keeps for ever!). a rose or two, some ivy and green leaves from the forest and you are all set. to get started line a basket with some foil and trim on the edges. soak some floral foam in water and place in the basket, when soaked wet (can be really, really wet - it will have to work as a vase to the flowers), eventually cut and trim the floral on the edges, so that it resembles an arch. trim flowers and green leaves and stick into pot. start doing so on the bottom of foam, working upwards until you have an even flowery centrepiece. make sure foam stays moist - adding some water from time to time. Archive 2008-02-01
  • Lee's debut on the Xbox does not resemble a dragon, but prefers to plod along like a sloth, short on all the crucial fronts, lazily bumbling along everywhere else.
  • They lived for some days on the excellent flesh of the maskalonge, on clams from the beach -- enormous clams of delicious flavor -- on a new fruit with a pinkish meat, which grew abundantly in the thickets and somewhat resembled breadfruit; on wild asparagus-sprouts, and on the few squirrels that Stern was able to "pot" with his revolver from the shelter of the leafy little camping-place they had arranged near the river. Darkness and Dawn
  • Flight patterns resemble Peregrine and Hobby.
  • The labellum indument resembles, although superficially, that of the hairy areas of an insect tegument.
  • In this respect at least, Mozart resembles his comparably productive contemporary Joseph Haydn.
  • Soldiers resemble worker termites, except that they have enlarged brownish heads and strong, well-developed jaws.
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