Example sentences for: seeming

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

  • In appointing the bland, seemingly slow-paced Chernomyrdin as his envoy, Boris Yeltsin is probably hoping that Chernomyrdin will somehow pull off a settlement without really seeming to or without raising too many hackles, and that his ultimate success will be Primakov's loss.

  • For Ben Jonson, writing this brilliant poem early in the 17 th century, the opposite is true: The ear is the avenue of the spirit, while the eye is duped by mere seeming.

  • The part is all mugging--pulling Harpo-like faces--but Morton turns it into a delicious tease, always seeming on the verge of speech, of saying something naughty or funny or caustic.

  • Was Charles Keating, as he passed out worthless bonds in exchange for thousands of citizens' retirement nest eggs, merely unctuously hypocritical, or was he corrupt behind a display of seeming benevolence?

  • After entering the proper definition in the margin, Selfish and corrupt behind a display of seeming benevolence, I sat down to decipher the new version: unctuously hypocritical.


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