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Example sentences for "resemblance"

Lexicographically close words:
resected; resection; resections; resell; reselling; resemblances; resemble; resembled; resembles; resemblest
  1. These rooms are frequented by ladies in the evenings, and then bear some resemblance to a London rout.

  2. You would satisfy yourself, at least, as to what resemblance she may bear to her father: Miss Reynolds will come instantly, and she will nurse you.

  3. I knew it to be yours, my dear, because it is an exact resemblance of one upon your watch of Flora, which was drawn from the flower I brought you from Kew Gardens.

  4. These complaints, which are familiar to most of you, have some resemblance to the typhus of the ox.

  5. Hence also the Guaranies, whose language bears much resemblance to that of Brazil, at this day call all the Spaniards and Europeans Caraỳ.

  6. This skin garment bears some sort of resemblance to the cloak which we priests wear to sing vespers in the church.

  7. And I wonder I did not notice the strange resemblance you bear to him before you called my attention to it.

  8. May you not be misled by that Resemblance I bear, to one who is, in your eyes, so much my superior?

  9. But I pray you again all to carefully note this hateful resemblance,--a resemblance I would fain rid me of--for it makes me seem a living copy of the man I most despise!

  10. When I first came among you, I bade you all look at me well,--I asked you to note the resemblance I bore to the ruling Sovereign.

  11. For, remember, I am a stranger to this part of the country, and my accidental resemblance to the King does not make me his subject!

  12. I bear an extraordinary resemblance to him, --so great indeed, that I might be taken for his twin brother if he had one!

  13. He was more like a soldier than a doctor, and was proud of his resemblance to the earlier portraits of Bismarck.

  14. But, even so, I could not have looked idly on, and seen his merest Resemblance slain!

  15. By my faith, your resemblance to his Majesty is somewhat striking to-night, my bold Leroy!

  16. There is a bust of Pompey the Great, bearing not the slightest resemblance to that vulgar and unintellectual one in the gallery of the Capitol, altogether a different cast of countenance.

  17. With these views they landed in France, gave themselves out to be brothers (which a certain resemblance in their persons corroborated), and called themselves Sackville.

  18. Yes," cried Lady Sara, forcing a smile; "and now you have given him a striking resemblance to George Barnwell!

  19. His heart bounded at every step in the passage; and throwing open his room-door, he listened to every person that spoke, but no voice bore any resemblance to that of Somerset.

  20. I am too well convinced that the errors of my son bear too strict a resemblance to those of his grandfather.

  21. My head rested against the base of a statue which, because of its resemblance to me, Sackville had presented to my father.

  22. It would be difficult to find much resemblance between the well-ordered house of the thriving farmer of to-day and that of half a century ago: In the first place the house itself is designed with an eye to convenience and comfort.

  23. Their supposed resemblance to the king's corduroy cloth gained for these crossways the name of corduroy roads.

  24. The lover sees no resemblance except to summer evenings and diamond mornings, to rainbows and the song of birds.

  25. When examining the agates, the chalcedonic and jaspery rocks, some of the limestones, and even the bright red sandstones, I was forcibly struck with their resemblance to deposits formed in the neighbourhood of volcanic action.

  26. Gregorio) in the Pampean formation; but I must believe that this resemblance is only accidental.

  27. With the exception of these saliferous beds, most of the rocks as already remarked, present a striking general resemblance with the upper parts of the gypseous or cretaceo-oolitic formation of Chile.

  28. This earthy mass, with its concretions and mammiferous remains, filling up furrows in the underlying gravel, certainly presents a very striking resemblance to some of the sections (for instance, at P.

  29. Again," he mused, "I do not recollect any resemblance at all between those workers and the men at the dinner, and certainly they are not like any one here.

  30. No," he mused, "I see very little resemblance between the men at that dinner and the men in this hall; still less between them and the waiter.

  31. And from one to the other he looked, and the more he looked the less resemblance he saw between them, till the objects of his scrutiny grew restive.

  32. The likelihood that he is the painter is greatly strengthened by the close resemblance in style between it and the similar piece that follows--the personages evidently being the same.

  33. The Mugs out of which the violent politicians of Charles the Second's time drank their beer, were fashioned into the resemblance of Shaftsbury's face.

  34. That the warlike countess was a fair specimen of activity, we cannot doubt; but that it had any resemblance to Christian activity, is more than doubtful.

  35. Could she have seen him an hour later, the resemblance to his father might have struck her still more forcibly, for the social glass was again at his lips.

  36. By this time her pretty tangled ringlets had stiffened into a striking resemblance to cork screws interspersed with porcupine quills.

  37. The one beyond this, and next the retina, is called the vitreous humour, from its resemblance to glass.

  38. That is what it called the iris," answered her mother, "which is the latin name for rainbow, I suppose from some fancied resemblance to it.

  39. Colville, looking at the child, whose youthful resemblance to her mother was in all things so perfect that a fantastic question whether she could ever have had any other parent swept through him.

  40. This favourite commandant was by the Boers called "King David," and not only in the authoritativeness of his tone, but also in the sharp diversities of his martial experiences, bore some not remote resemblance to his ancient namesake.

  41. The rocks are evidently all igneous and volcanic, but often stand apart in separate columns, and sometimes bear a striking resemblance to enormous beasts or images that might once have served for Oriental idols.

  42. Miles did condescend to say that one of the objects to which Frank drew our attention was not so very unlike at a distance, but that the resemblance was lost as you approached the reality--a piece of rock not less than twenty feet high.

  43. The scenes of his childhood and his youth were doubtless remembered by him, when he wrote "The Deserted Village," and many features of resemblance may still be traced.

  44. This literal significance of the word does not help, as we know of no constellation figured as a "moth" or bearing any resemblance to one.

  45. The actual resemblance between the two Deluge narratives has caused a resemblance to be imagined between the two Creation narratives.

  46. It has been well brought out in some of the later comments of Assyriologists that, so far from there being any resemblance in the Babylonian legend to the narrative in Genesis, the two accounts differ in toto.

  47. If, in law, truth is often like falsehood, falsehood on the other hand has a very great resemblance to truth.

  48. The singular resemblance between the bailiff's head and that of the thirteenth apostle, which his conduct appeared to carry out, won him that odious nickname throughout the neighborhood.

  49. When my uncle saw me sitting on the stile, and heard me pronounce my mother's name, he looked earnestly in my face, and began to fancy a resemblance to his sister, and to think I might be her child.

  50. When she was sitting before the instrument, a resemblance to her mother became apparent to every eye.

  51. When once the cloth was drawn in the good old-fashioned way, and the decanters and lamps and glasses stood mirrored in the shining dark mahogany, the resemblance was more marked than ever.

  52. Presently another figure came along, a tall figure which in the gloom bore a strong resemblance to Tchigorsky.

  53. It was the girl who bore that surprising resemblance to Marion.

  54. The hyoid bone is named from its resemblance to the Greek letter U.

  55. The clavicle or key bone, so-called because of its supposed resemblance to the key used by the Romans, forms the anterior portion of the shoulder girdle.


  56. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "resemblance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.