semblance
Example Sentences
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“If you’re young or immunosuppressed you don’t want any semblance of influenza virus lingering in you that could potentially come back again or worse, open the doors for a bacterial infection or something more severe.”
The Trojans missed nine of their first 10 shots, unable to find any semblance of a rhythm.
From Los Angeles Times
In the Venezuelan capital, life was slowly returning to a semblance of normalcy on Sunday, albeit on a weekend pace.
From Los Angeles Times
For all their technical acumen, the hum and whir of life remains absent in their work, which merely mimics the semblances of behavior they’ve observed from other films.
From Los Angeles Times
The generals are looking for an off-ramp which will buy them a semblance of legitimacy, and win over some of their many opponents.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
