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Example sentences for "what seems"

  • Others chafe at spending time on what seems to them, and what sometimes is, quite unrelated to the life they will lead and the work they will do.

  • No girl need feel hampered by her sex because she chooses not to do work which fails either to utilize her peculiar gifts or to lead in what seems to her a profitable direction.

  • What seems unreasonable to one may seem quite right to another and whatever carries a sincere faith deepening into a positive spiritual experience accomplishes for the moment its purpose.

  • Almost any one who has had a practical observation of the working of Christian Science has knowledge enough not only of looseness and inconsistency but of what seems to the non-Christian Science mind positive untruth.

  • The more liberal-minded religious teachers doubtless very greatly overestimate the penetration of popular thought already accomplished, by what seems to them a familiar commonplace.

  • What seems to have been the first edition of this brochure bears no date.

  • What seems to be another edition is in the Bodleian: A True and Particular Observation of a notable Piece of Witchcraft--which is the inside heading of the first edition.

  • I will tell you, Sokrates (he answered), what seems incredible, yet is nevertheless true.

  • What seems to us to be the truth is that it was Sir Galahad who acted as protector to his sister when Richard Brinsley Sheridan went with Elizabeth Linley to France.

  • What seems clear is that Mr. Smith is a very ignorant man, whose views in regard to education are of an altogether retrograde character.

  • This cranial peculiarity, offensively conspicuous in what seems to have been a narrow-headed family, was reason enough for the parents to disown their offspring, and to treat him as the counterfeit of a child foisted in by the fairies.

  • What seems elemental to the modern petrographer who has acquired his technical education since 1890 was unknown then, and the classification given in the report may not agree with that now taught.

  • Syllogisms in action are but stupid things after all, unless they are checked by a tincture of what seems paradox.

  • What seems so simple, and what was so necessary, marked in truth a vast revolutionary stride.

  • I feel, however, rather uneasy at what seems to me the extreme susceptibility on one side of the case of some members of the cabinet.

  • What seems to be the composition of the skeletons?

  • What seems to be the object of such a response?

  • If you have young grasshoppers of various ages, arrange a set of them in what seems to you to be the order of their development.

  • What seems a more satisfactory explanation has been given by Mr. Edwin Clark, a civil engineer, who resided nearly two years in the country and paid much attention to its natural history.

  • The Greek priests spend an hour on what seems to the sceptic mere meaningless formalities of the preparation of the Mass.

  • It must plainly be our business to understand ab initio these hypnotic phenomena; to push as far as may be what seems like an experimental evolution of the sleeping phase of personality.

  • In the case of alternations of personality, memory fails and changes in what seems a quite capricious way.

  • Sometimes there is what seems like a longer gaze, accompanied, perhaps by some sense of communion with the invaded person.

  • One cannot imagine that she specially wished him to see her, and to see her engaged in what seems so needless and undignified a retracing of currents of earthly thought.

  • Whether you leave me to live among you, free to do what seems right to me, or drive me forth, who have no wish to go, now and always I shall love you.

  • The process is one of redemption, not of mere reversion to natural health, and the sufferer, when saved, is saved by what seems to him a second birth, a deeper kind of conscious being than he could enjoy before.

  • Here, for instance, is what seems to be a spontaneous example of it, simply expressing what seemed right at the time between the individual and his Maker.

  • What seems to be mental fatigue can be materially reduced if the physical conditions under which studying, writing, and all other kinds of mental work are performed are carefully regulated.

  • What seems a contradictory fragment finds its precise niche in the divine scheme, what seems dark and cruel shines out in a setting of eternal beneficence and wisdom.

  • We give, therefore, at once a brief statement of what seems to us the most probable view, and shall then proceed to show how it explains the present distribution.

  • Here, also, the individual as well as the race finds himself surrounded by what seems an evil environment, against which he must struggle.

  • The piece was probably inserted by Zechariah himself: its lines are broken by what seems to be a piece of prose, in which the prophet asserts his mission, in words he twice uses elsewhere.

  • Besides, the meaning of the phrase is not certain; it may be only a general statement corresponding to what seems a general statement in the first clause of the verse.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "what seems" 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:
    great favorite; hope they; what befell; what can; what effect; what estate; what followed; what matter; what nature; what place; what principle; what prompted; what religion; what remains; what says; what sort; what strange; what things; what thou; what use; what you; what you have done; whatever may; whatever their; whatever thou; will hope