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Example sentences for "seemed like"

  • However, the sight of the river gave them new strength, for it seemed like a friendly trail to their own village.

  • It seemed like a foolhardy undertaking for an untried lad of sixteen winters.

  • Still it seemed like an unnecessary precaution, for they had been so skillfully bound that they would have been unable to escape even if the way had been open.

  • To May it seemed like a fairy tale to be received into a private steam-yacht as an expected guest, instead of the open skiff she had been looking for.

  • To May, who had so often dreamed over the voyages of these early explorers, it seemed like an enchanted land.

  • It seemed like a whole day, but at last the train came in, and I saw an old gentleman with white hair standing on the platform.

  • Though I had been absent but ten months, it seemed like years, and I was surprised to find how few changes had occurred since I left.

  • The snow was so heavy it seemed like a solid substance through which Ken walked.

  • It seemed like more of the unfamiliar facets of his father's personality that Ken had glimpsed last night.

  • He seemed like a runner who has used his last reserve of strength to reach a goal on which his eye has been fixed, only to discover the true goal is yet an immeasurable distance ahead.

  • It seemed like a month as they was under way before they finally got stopped in front o' the minister.

  • As the lights died out one by one, it seemed like a bedroom scene, the gloom of an alcove spreading over all.

  • The laughter of children came in through the circular window, which, with its bit of blue sky, seemed like a full round moon.

  • When one of these spoke there was a trembling of earth, and through the sky a great shell hurtled, with such a rush of air that it seemed like an express train dashing through an endless tunnel.

  • A yacht with white sails all agleam as it crossed the bar of a searchlight so that it seemed like a fairy ship in the vision of a dream, crept into the harbour and then fluttered into the darkness below the Admiralty pier.

  • She wore a German helmet above the wild hair which blew in wisps about her death-white face, and it seemed like a vision of hell as she passed shrieking with the laughter of insanity.

  • Now that I had quiet to think it over, it seemed like desecration to have the stolid, phlegmatic Thomas talk about it.

  • Still, he seemed like a gentleman, and I fancied he shrank painfully within himself as if one's presence made him ill at ease.

  • It seemed like one of the fairy tales of my childhood.

  • His great and powerful frame was so worn with vigils and fasts that it seemed like that of a huge skeleton.

  • It seemed like a mocking dream; yet, the pain in his heart informed him, it was true!

  • It seemed like a new world to him; the craggy heights, the blown cloud-banners overhead, the dusky woods frowning and smiling alternately under the sun.

  • It seemed like a bridal procession in its pomp, its splendor.

  • Under the circumstances it seemed like a wise precaution and we took his giant-powder, as he had suggested.

  • Perhaps we were there only one minute, but it seemed like five.

  • His decision to make the trip alone, poorly equipped as he was, seemed like suicide to us.

  • It seemed like a balmy zephyr compared with the tempest of a few hours ago.

  • The whispering still went on--but it seemed like a screaming of vultures now in Jimmie Dale's ears, as the words came to him.

  • It seemed like a window being opened or closed, cautiously, stealthily, the fraction of an inch at a time.

  • It seemed like a cold hand, deathlike, clutching at his heart.

  • Never did get real well acquainted with more 'n three or four uv 'em in all my life; seemed like it wuz meant that I shouldn't hev 'em round me as most men hev.

  • The crickets and the grasshoppers and the bumblebees joined in the sport, and romped and made music till it seemed like an endless carnival.

  • Seemed like it kind uv exalted an' purified Bill's nachur to git drunk an' git over it.

  • I don't know whar he come from; seemed like he didn't want to talk about his past.

  • It seemed like a preposterous, illogical dream; yet there he lay, alive, real, his face less than two feet from his own.

  • Again, it had been entered into under circumstances so tenderly sacred that even the wish to escape from it seemed like sacrilege.

  • He seemed like one so deeply absorbed in his own thoughts that he would have to be awakened as from sleep.

  • Annie, uneasily, for this bird's note, now heard again, seemed like a signal.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another girl; bitter almond; butt joint; come vnto; curious custom; great plenty; its place; nearer view; one cup sweet milk; seemed about; seemed best; seemed impossible; seemed incredible; seemed likely; seemed much; seemed natural; seemed quite; seemed strange; seemed suddenly; seemed that; seemed very; shipping clerk; that direction; wander about; will usually; your people