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Example sentences for "resembled"

Lexicographically close words:
resell; reselling; resemblance; resemblances; resemble; resembles; resemblest; resembleth; resembling; resent
  1. The portraits they had published of him in no wise resembled the young man who was now seated opposite him, regarding him with a sad and troubled look.

  2. These transactions, and the faces of the frowzy lodgers were clearly visible to the watchers across the road, but none of the men resembled Nepcote.

  3. His description of the man who passed it resembled Nepcote, and he added the information that the customer, after changing the shilling for a cup of coffee, had asked him where he could get a bed.

  4. And mingling among the quivering moonbeams around the head was a silvery halo that might be the hair of Father Burke; for the face resembled his.

  5. It resembled a fire-bucket; and there were white letters around the centre.

  6. And the next morning, at crack o' dawn, they started off, Pats with a knapsack so voluminous that he resembled a pedler.

  7. Two or three of her relations were staying in the house, and one of them was the man who had been at her dinner-party given for the engaged couple, and who resembled Guido but was older.

  8. She pitied him with all her heart, but there was nothing in her compassion that at all resembled love.

  9. Judging from the Princess Anatolie, it was probable that he resembled his mother's family more than his father's.

  10. They were now by their reckoning within ten miles of Sturt's Creek; but although Warburton made two separate attempts to find it, he was unable to see any country that at all resembled the description given by Gregory.

  11. Madame de Meroul mentally resembled her husband, just as if they had been brother and sister.

  12. I did not speak about it; I said nothing about it; but gradually I acquired a sensibility, or rather a sensitivity so lively that my soul resembled a living wound.

  13. My heart was throbbing wildly; I was frightened; I hurriedly drew back the door, and in the darkness I distinguished a white figure, standing erect, something that resembled an apparition.

  14. In disposition, they were in many points exceedingly unlike; but in feature they resembled each other so closely that, but for the colour of their hair, it had been difficult to distinguish them.

  15. But those who had no cause to fear her keenness or her coldness admired her beauty; nor could the famous Parisian model whom Clive said she resembled be more perfect in form than this young lady.

  16. The lad's tone was offensive, and resembled the manner lately adopted by him, which had so much chafed Mr. Washington.

  17. In 1560 Presbyterianism was established in Scotland, but it does not appear to have materially differed from the Episcopalianism it displaced, or rather absorbed, for it had superintendents whose office closely resembled that of bishops.

  18. John Roy became one of the most renowned of the old chiefs of Gairloch; he was in fact second only in fame to his celebrated grandfather, whom he closely resembled in appearance and physique.

  19. It resembled in appearance a good-sized boat with the keel turned up.

  20. In another essential point he resembled his illustrious contemporary, the Duke of Urbino; for he was sincerely pious in an age which, however it preserved the decencies of ceremonial religion, was profoundly corrupt at heart.

  21. Merely to think, far more to tell my mind Of that most wondrous sight, confoundeth me, For mid the maidens she Who most resembled her was found most rare.

  22. This club seems to have resembled modern burial societies, as known to us in England; or still more closely to have been formed upon the same model as Italian confraternitè of the Middle Ages.

  23. The resemblance which the staged towers of Mesopotamia bear to the pyramids of Egypt naturally led to an interrogation as to whether they resembled them also in regard to the use to which they were put.

  24. It was then seen that Assyrian was a Semitic language and resembled Hebrew in particular; this was proved conclusively by De Saulcy in 1849.

  25. The Assyrian hounds apparently resembled mastiffs, and according to Layard the breed is still extant in Tibet though not in Mesopotamia.

  26. Sometimes the landlord found the seed, the necessary tools, and also the oxen, and in addition paid a wage to the farmer; in this case the status of the tenant somewhat resembled that of a gardener in his cottage on an estate to-day.

  27. From a distance they resembled fairy palaces.

  28. In that year of her interminable history, China resembled a huge, helpless jelly-fish, attacked on every side by the sword-fishes of Europe.

  29. De Stancy went into the room adjoining, opened an album of portraits that lay on the table, and selected one of a young man quite unknown to him, whose age was somewhat akin to Dare's, but who in no other attribute resembled him.

  30. I watched the pair for several minutes, wondering whether in my brain, unbalanced as it had been, the scene was a mere chimera on my part and that, after all, the girl only slightly resembled the victim at Stretton Street.

  31. The girl's face certainly resembled very closely that of the dead girl Gabrielle Engledue.

  32. Rich was one of the most intimate friends of Buckingham, and to a certain extent resembled him in character.

  33. Her father, an officer whose sabre-arm was left at Molino del Rey, and whose heart was crushed when the loving wife was taken from him, turned to the child who so resembled her, and centred there all his remaining love and life.

  34. He had searched the train from pilot to rear platform, and no man who in the faintest degree resembled Mr. Jerrold was on board.

  35. They were encased in brown velveteens much the worse for wear, and in shape resembled a couple of sticks with a crook at the knees.

  36. These latter resembled the serfs, which are at present to be met with in Poland, Denmark, and some parts of Germany.

  37. FN [z] The office of chancellor among the Anglo-Saxons resembled more that of a secretary of state, than that of our present chancellor.

  38. There passed under the walls of this place many rencounters, which resembled more the single combats of chivalry than the military actions of armies; but one of them was remarkable for its circumstances and its event.

  39. The bees resembled our hive bee in appearance, the butterflies resembled the small white variety common in our gardens, which has yellow and black upon its wings.

  40. The contest resembled that of two expert swordsmen; more intermittent doubtless, but also much more prolonged.

  41. They brought in also the custom of long and stately sitting at meat, whereby their feasts resembled those ancient pontifical banquets whereof Macrobius speaketh (lib.

  42. Many said unto the queen he resembled much unto Sir Launcelot.

  43. When she beheld him she said: Soothly I dare well say that Sir Launcelot begat him, for never two men resembled more in likeness, therefore it is no marvel though he be of great prowess.

  44. For thou hast resembled me in two things; in that thou hast seen the marvels of the Sangreal, in that thou hast been a clene maiden, as I have been and am.

  45. The movement of which it was the result resembled the revolt of Arabi in our own days.

  46. In person, as we learn from the Egyptian monuments, the Canaanites resembled their descendants, the modern inhabitants of Palestine.

  47. Gardens were planted by the side of some of the tombs, which resembled the houses of the living, and in front of which offerings were made to the dead.

  48. The Pharaonic Egyptian resembled in body and character the typical native of Central Egypt to-day.

  49. Horite and Amalekite Bedâwin were alike absorbed into the new-comers, whose position in Edom resembled that of the Israelites in Canaan.

  50. The political condition of Canaan resembled its religious condition; as each district had its separate Baal, so too it had its separate political existence.

  51. The remaining ornaments of his dress resembled those we have described as worn by Bartja, and the blue and white fillet of the Achaemenidae was bound around the tiara, which surmounted a mass of thick curls, black as ebony.


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