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US
/ˈsim/
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[ UK /sˈiːm/ ]
[ UK /sˈiːm/ ]
VERB
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give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect
This appears to be a very difficult problem
She seems to be sleeping
They appeared like people who had not eaten or slept for a long time
This project looks fishy -
appear to one's own mind or opinion
I seem to be misunderstood by everyone
I can't seem to learn these Chinese characters -
appear to exist
There seems no reason to go ahead with the project now -
seem to be true, probable, or apparent
It seems that he is very gifted
It appears that the weather in California is very bad
How To Use seem In A Sentence
- Intellectual Dublin seemed no longer to consist of writers, but of folk singers, bearded or otherwise.
- It also seems to carry the well-tempered glow of late Woody Allen with a well-satisfied view of late life and with few illusions. The Unshine Boys
- Moreover, Mr Webb's point about what he calls disinterested management -- that is to say, the management of banks by officers whose remuneration bears no relation to the profit made on each piece of business transacted -- is one of the matters in which English banking seems likely at least to be modified. War-Time Financial Problems
- I learned how to negotiate fights between adolescent girls without making it seem like parental interference.
- Maurice Mair seemed to spin like a teetotum and pitch upon his face like a ninepin. The Complete Father Brown
- Leaving London they went to Paris, where they passed a few days, but soon grew weary of the place; and Lord Chetwynde, feeling a kind of languor, which seemed to him like a premonition of disease, he decided to go to Germany. The Cryptogram A Novel
- People were gulping down sundowners, women seemed to be, rather disinterestedly, sipping their drinks and picking up a bite.
- I'm still feeling a bit cranially sprained, mind you, but the cat seems perfectly happy to be spending a snow day on the couch with me, watching S3 of Mission: Impossible. The Snowpocalypse Continues
- If all this seems a little negative, let me assure you I now feel an almost pathological fondness for the place. Times, Sunday Times
- He seemed a little taken aback, sat and listened with fur bristling, one hand stroking the back of the other.