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Example sentences for "first appear"

  • I am well aware that this statement will at first appear incredible to almost everyone.

  • In the general summary to this chapter a few remarks will be added, showing that the efficiency of such extremely minute doses is not so incredible as it must at first appear.

  • The question is a most important one, and is far from being so simple as it may at first appear.

  • As the nature of the process of reasoning has not yet come under our review, it may not at first appear to you, how essential the truths of intuition are to those very truths which are usually opposed to them.

  • Here the ideas become in some measure superficial, and in some measure the conceptions are more consistent as regards the particular, than they at first appear.

  • There is even reason to suspect, improbable as this will at first appear, that some males and females of the same species, inhabiting the same district, do not always please each other, and consequently do not pair.

  • That this negro should have attributed, whether rightly or wrongly, the fine appearance of his tribe to the long-continued elimination of the ugly women is not so surprising as it may at first appear; for I have elsewhere shewn (4.

  • Yet, if one surveys life in all its duties and relations, such ease and leisure will not be found so enviable a privilege as it may at first appear.

  • It is simply a matter of arranging those nine figures correctly, and yet with the thousands of possible combinations that confront us the task is not so easy as might at first appear, if we are to get a considerable number of results.

  • Now, curious as it may at first appear, the following diagram exactly represents the conditions when we leave the doubles out of the question and devote our attention to forming circular arrangements.

  • The identification of a friend, simple as this operation may at first appear, really takes place by a rapid classing of all the salient characteristic features which serve as the visible marks of that particular person.

  • Odd though it may at first appear, old age is said to resemble youth in this confusion of dream-recollection with the memory of waking experience.

  • For the play of imagination at any time follows the lines of our past experience more closely than would at first appear, and being coloured with emotion, will reflect the predominant emotional impulses of the individual mind.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "first appear" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    first and; first appearance; first began; first book; first came; first cousin; first governor; first hearing; first intention; first loved; first mentioned; first minister; first novel; first paper; first period; first saw; first section; first speech; first they; first trip; first visit; first volume; first week; first went; first wife; first work