Example sentences for: resembling

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

  • The Tower of Mist and Rain (Yanyulou), a two-story lakeside pavilion in the southern style, was favored by emperors for its foggy views resembling those of an old Chinese painting.

  • The Digor dialect (in the west and north of the Ossete region) seems to have such a separate word resembling the second part of the Ossetic ones given above.

  • Lederer and Schenkerman put the word cockamamy (or cockamamie ) at the head of a list of Yiddish words found in English as published in Webster's Third New International Dictionary . I have spoken Yiddish since childhood, have a fairly wide reading knowledge and acquaintance with various levels and styles of the language, but have never come across a word or phrase resembling cockamamy . It simply has no meaning in that language.

  • Comparison curves show that the great majority of test sequences are more plant-like than otherwise, with 20% or less resembling microbial symbionts more closely than plants.

  • The cases in question both occur in Micronesia: a concentration of congenital achromatopsia on Pingelap, one of the Caroline Islands; and the occurrence among a stratum of the population of Guam of a disease called lytico-bodig, which can take forms resembling Parkinson's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ("Lou Gehrig's disease"), or Alzheimer's disease--or two or all three in combination.


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