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Example sentences for "there seemed"

  • As I went thus crying through the streets, there seemed to me to be a channel of blood running down the streets, and the market-place appeared like a pool of blood.

  • There seemed to be something in his father's manner more than ordinarily jocund and good-humoured.

  • There seemed to be a great deal of bustle, and I didn't understand much about it," said the member.

  • There seemed to be so little to justify it.

  • There seemed to be one small hope, however: if we could get through the intricate and dangerous Hat Island crossing before night, we could venture the rest, for we would have plainer sailing and better water.

  • The strangers shouted several times more, then rode by--there seemed to be a dozen of the horses--and I heard nothing more.

  • I should have to set out the real case--there seemed to be no other way.

  • There seemed to be some uncomfortable attraction of Monsieur Rigaud's eyes to the immediate neighbourhood of that part of the pavement where the thumb had been in the plan.

  • With the supper came one of the young Fathers (there seemed to be no old Fathers) to take the head of the table.

  • There seemed to be a sound in them like the sound of her sweet voice.

  • There seemed to be only two of them, of size indeed and stature as all the Doones must be, but I need not have feared to encounter them both, had they been unarmed, as I was.

  • And higher up, where the light of the moon shone broader upon the precipice, there seemed to be a rude broken track, like the shadow of a crooked stick thrown upon a house-wall.

  • There seemed a sort of exposure about the action, something too intimate.

  • There seemed an eternal maidenhood about her; and when he thought of her mother, he saw the great brown eyes of a maiden who was nearly scared and shocked out of her virgin maidenhood, but not quite, in spite of her seven children.

  • There seemed to be something cruel in it, something cruel in the swift way he pitched the bread out of the tins, caught it up again.

  • There seemed no reason why people should go along the street, and houses pile up in the daylight.

  • There seemed to me something degrading in such a course.

  • There seemed now to take place a low-toned conversation amongst them, and the Lady Helen, with a pale countenance, drew back towards Wilton and Laura.

  • Lord Sherbrooke forced him, indeed, to speak more than he was inclined, and, to Lady Laura, there seemed a strange contrast between the thoughts and language of the two.

  • As there seemed to be no chance of getting her hands up to her head, she tried to get her head down to them, and was delighted to find that her neck would bend about easily in any direction, like a serpent.

  • There seemed a ghastly augury in the coincidence.

  • There seemed to be nothing in particular that she could do about it, so she let him keep it, and he used it occasionally to gesture with.

  • There seemed a conspicuous dearth of Wobbleses on the east loggia that morning.

  • There seemed to be no churches to do, and as it was a Sunday, the galleries were so early closed against them that they were making a virtue as well as a pleasure of the famous scene of Napoleon's first great defeat.

  • There seemed scarcely a vacant place in the huge saloon; through the oval openings in the centre they looked down into the lower saloon and up into the music-room, as thickly thronged with breakfasters.

  • There seemed to be no idlers about, to reprove; the occasional lounger on the skeleton wharves was in his Sunday clothes, and therefore within the statute.

  • There seemed to be always something for him to do, even when all the rest of the family came as near being idle as is ever possible in a New England household.

  • There seemed a good deal of stir about it as I passed.

  • In all his discipline, in his consecration, in his vows of separation from the world, there seemed to have been no shield prepared for this.

  • There seemed to be no doubt, among hundreds that attended it, that if they could get a resolution passed that bread should be buttered on both sides, it would be so buttered.

  • There seemed reason in this when, going out into the lane, he encountered one of the red jackets he had been thinking of.

  • There seemed to be something uncanny, after all, about London, in its relation to his contemplated marriage.

  • There seemed to be a man who assisted in the conduct of the place, a heavy-set fellow with a closely curling mustache.

  • There seemed to be no point of attack that had been left unguarded.

  • There seemed to be nothing that we could do for him just then.

  • Still, there seemed to be something in the mud, just off the side of the road, that did interest Garrick.

  • There seemed more of the destructive in the spring itself than of the genial--cold winds, great showers, days of steady rain, sudden assaults of hail and sleet.

  • Ian was high above her, so high that she shrank from him; there seemed a whole heaven of height between them.

  • The water below was slaty gray, in response to the gray sky above: there seemed no life in either.

  • There seemed to be no reason why we should leave the suite, since Mrs. Atherton paid so little attention to us even when we had been in the same room.

  • There seemed to be both men and women, perhaps half a dozen votaries.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "there seemed" 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:
    distant place; each petal; entre les; forgiving sins; great town; how she; miles further; mon petit; there ain; there any; there appeared; there being; there can; there could; there has; there lived; there might; there must; there never; there the; there was; there were; there will; there would; therefore the; well and