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Example sentences for: semblance

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

Moskovsky Komsomolets said that "even those who opposed the impeachment could not find a good word to say about Yeltsin and spoke against the impeachment solely in the interests of preserving a semblance of stability in the country."
Forget, too, the absence of even the semblance of evidence for Kinsey's inner state here as elsewhere: Kinsey "must have felt" ambivalence about gardening because it threatened his "fragile sense of masculinity."
I can understand your wanting to shame the Wall Street Journal with some semblance of mathematical rigor, but Lord knows we poor scientists have to defend ourselves against enough nonsense posing as science ("Mister Chairman, how can that 10 year study show us anything about bears when my cousin told me he never saw a bear in his life?"
Moreover, LSC wanted to encourage all programs to pursue some semblance of planning.
In a country with a century of national unity and the scalding experience of Mussolini’s fascism, sports seem almost the only activity that can inspire any semblance of patriotic fervor in Italians.