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seem - use in sentences
Object
- intent: Cole was also getting involved in the odd flare-up and seemed intent on accompanying Mills down the tunnel.
- bit: Indeed the step from teaching dinghy sailing to managing a Flotilla can seem a bit of a stretch.
- pity: Such a big effort went into that exhibition that it seemed a pity to let it all slip out of our memories.
- enough: The game itself certainly seemed solid enough for an early build, and did pretty much everything you'd expect of a current RTS.
- lot: Nothing much has changed, except that the idea seems a lot less unique third time around.
Preposition: at
- odd: Increasingly, the attitudes of male professionalism have seemed outrageously at odds with a supposedly caring profession.
Noun phrase with adjective complement
- tame: Mount Olympus might seem a bit tame after Santorini.
Adjective complement
- unlikely: In fact, we're 23 points ahead of the bottom three who all seem unlikely to reach 45 points this season.
- strange: Several of the MIME mechanisms may seem strange at first reading.
- reasonable: It seems reasonable to include any quality schemes they use.
- likely: In the end, Bohr looks like a complete genius, and Heisenberg appears much more sympathetic than seemed likely at the start.
- obvious: Putting on my Business Analyst's hat, the solution seemed obvious.
- odd: As these levels went in different directions this seemed odd.
Infinitive complement
- have: Nobody else seems to have reported the incident of the Air Force men taking readings.
- think: Well, I think I am more modest than you seem to think.
- indicate: But the results also seemed to indicate that in broad terms the differences were less immediately obvious than the similarities.
- suggest: Doesn't the evidence on the ground seem to suggest that most human lives are expendable most of the time?
- remember: I seem to remember the Doctor & Romana being trapped in a room for what seemed like an eternity.
- know: Unfortunately, the one detail Scotty doesn't seem to know is that, in Germany, Mieke is a girl's name.
Preposition: like
- eternity: I seem to remember the Doctor & Romana being trapped in a room for what seemed like an eternity.
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