Example sentences for: resemblance

How can you use “resemblance” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The face has an obviously simian cast--yet the creature sports a tweed coat and spectacles and parts his silver hair on the side; he bears a distinct resemblance to the late George Burns.

  • There are displays of artisans creating the jewels — look for models with an uncanny resemblance to John Lennon and Paul McCartney.

  • The family resemblance among his collages and those being made concurrently by artists in Germany, France, and even the United States provides a bracing example of what is meant by a Zeitgeist --in a time of shaky and sluggish telecommunications, several dozen widely separated artists all hit at once on the idea of chopping up whatever printed ephemera lay at hand and reassembling the fragments into dynamic compositions that reassigned their meaning.

  • On the contrary, he hams up his resemblance to a clown and wheezes for laughs (and, presumably, a paycheck).

  • --which is how Laurence Olivier and Kenneth Branagh play him in the two movie versions of Henry V . But read the play more closely and you realize that the cheerfully successful king bears little resemblance to the man Shakespeare created.


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