seeming

Example Sentences

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Seeming to struggle with the autocue, he said: "I'm going to go back, I'm sorry. There was a mistake in this. I'll keep going. Just keep scrolling. Can we go back? Sorry."

From BBC • Nov. 28, 2023

Seeming to spoof himself, Kitson sounds self-important notes, telling his friend that his goal as an artist is to show, not tell, leaving it up to the audience to put it together.

From New York Times • Dec. 16, 2022

Seeming to act as stained glass windows, the blossoms let light shine through, transmuted in color.

From Washington Post • Apr. 2, 2022

Seeming is a lot of what “Old Henry” is about too: what looks cut and dried but might not be, appears bucolic but isn’t exactly, and what only sounds truthful.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2021

Seeming to gain courage, she went to the hut and came back with something again in her hands, a bundle wrapped up in a rag.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin