How to Use seem in a Sentence

seem

verb
  • What they're doing doesn't seem right to me.
  • I tried to cheer them up because they seemed depressed.
  • Like many things in My New Friends, this seems like a stretch.
    Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Bert is a little gray on the chin but doesn't seem to feel it at all!
    The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 27 Oct. 2024
  • High school seemed as good a time as any to start investing in the cause.
    Charlotte Collins, Architectural Digest, 11 Sep. 2024
  • This might seem small, but in just five years, the outage time has doubled in the US.
    Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 1 July 2024
  • The news seemed to have sent a chill through the niche community.
    Nick Stoico, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2023
  • The chances of one of them opening the season on the two-deep at Sam or Jack linebacker seem high.
    oregonlive, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The result is that the company can’t seem to hire fast enough.
    Sydney Ember, New York Times, 2 June 2023
  • Maybe this qualifies as the trap line among the four play-in games, but this seems far too high.
    Nick Hennion, Chicago Tribune, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Your friend seems not to have noticed the change in attitudes.
    Nicholas Ivor Martin and Jacobina Martin, oregonlive, 10 July 2023
  • After Rodón got two quick outs, the Dodgers didn’t seem to have much brewing.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2024
  • Gray clouds frequently filled the skies, and at many hours, the sun seemed subdued by them.
    Martin Weil, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2023
  • At first glance, the items listed for sale on Craigslist seemed benign: Blue socks.
    Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2024
  • But what may have seemed like a low-stakes partnership sparked a firestorm.
    Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 21 July 2023
  • No one on the show seems to question the primacy of beauty.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2024
  • The lid’s dark, varnished inlay seemed to swirl and shimmer like the surface of Venus.
    David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2024
  • The sorrow and beauty in it seemed too sharp to have come from a grief that wasn’t personal.
    Caleb Crain, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Satellite imagery showed that nearly two-thirds of the lake seems to have been drained.
    Reuters, NBC News, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Unlike most potholes, the one seen in the video seemed to have a specific shape that could have been cut out of the ground.
    Li Cohen, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Movie stars showed up on the sidelines at practice, and Carroll seemed to fit in among them.
    Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Kate Holstein At first, the path seems easy: almost a Sunday stroll rather than a hike.
    Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 10 July 2023
  • The senators, though, did not seem to be happy with the response.
    Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 17 May 2023
  • The story seemed like one Alex Morgan might tell around a campfire.
    Juliet MacUr, New York Times, 21 July 2023
  • On the surface, detoxing our underarms seems like the right thing to do.
    Akili King, Essence, 14 May 2024
  • All seems to be off to a good start when the pair reunite in a tearful, airport greeting.
    Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 4 Dec. 2023
  • The case seems unsolvable, but a special team of detectives follow the path to the truth.
    Marta Balaga, Variety, 7 Apr. 2024
  • Image The still lifes are built around themes, and some seem straightforward.
    Holland Cotter, New York Times, 7 June 2024
  • From the ground, Arizona may seem like a dusty desert with very little water.
    Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 12 July 2024
  • The addition of llamas seems all to fitting for the always-quirky PDX.
    Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 28 Dec. 2023

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