[ UK /sˈɛmbləns/ ]
[ US /ˈsɛmbɫəns/ ]
NOUN
  1. picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing
  2. an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading
    the situation soon took on a different color
    he hoped his claims would have a semblance of authenticity
    he tried to give his falsehood the gloss of moral sanction
  3. an erroneous mental representation
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How To Use semblance In A Sentence

  • The resemblance also of the human stomach to that of the orang-outang is greater than to that of any other animal. The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Her words came so fast that I cannot attempt their semblance here, and her voice rose and fell in a kind of querulous chant to which sometimes she nodded her head, as if she was beating the time. The Fool Errant
  • I have seen human bathers acting just like the birds, though from a different cause, bobbing down towards the water, but afraid to dip their heads, and the idea of comicality arose, as it does in most of the ludicrous actions of animals, from their resemblance to those of mankind. The Naturalist in Nicaragua
  • Except for the fact that his hair was a solid black, the thin, slight boy of about fifteen or sixteen bore an uncanny resemblance to Kunihiko.
  • The bust of Thales shown above is in the Capitoline Museum in Rome, but is not contemporary with Thales and is unlikely to bear any resemblance to him
  • There is an uncanny resemblance between this reasoning and that which had earlier led John Dalton to an atomic theory of chemistry.
  • The soil and the landscape of the Isonzo region in Friuli especially bears these resemblances. WTN: Channing Daughters Winery 2004 L'Enfant Sauvage Chardonnay (The Hamptons)
  • Many other species of Callia also resemble other malacoderms; and the longicorn genus Lycidola has been named from its resemblance to various species of the Lycidae, one of the species here figured (Lycidola belti) being a good mimic of Calopteron corrugatum and of several other allied species, all being of about the same size and found at Chontales. Darwinism (1889)
  • Still, the Raiders have to generate some semblance of pressure with their front four.
  • There is not much apparent resemblance between a barndoor Fowl and the Dog who protects the farm-yard. Essays
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