semblance

Example Sentences

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His death has brought a semblance of closure to some of those affected, surfaced complicated feelings in others, and raised many questions.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

Called Queen by her neighbors, Judit struggles to support her family and find some semblance of happiness in Bäck, a rural Swedish village.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Operation Epic Fury shares DNA with a lineage of similarly buzzy code names throughout military history, but generally speaking, they typically maintained some semblance of consultant-speak restraint.

From Slate • Mar. 6, 2026

Though he’s a master manipulator, Gustav always has to compromise to get a semblance of what he wants.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026

Only after laying a semblance of it on the page can a writer free up the cognitive resources needed to make the sentence grammatical, graceful, and, most important, transparent to the reader.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker