How to Use appear in a Sentence

appear

verb

• One by one, the stars appeared in the sky.
• The airplanes seemed to appear out of nowhere.
• One of the guests appeared a few minutes late.
• The sun began to appear from behind the clouds.
• The cat appears at our kitchen door every morning.
• She appears a nice enough person.
• He appeared a little before eight last night.
• The storm disappeared as suddenly as it had appeared.
• Winning the election appears unlikely at this point.
• Roots will appear in a few weeks.
  — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 2 Nov. 2025
• Many of those records appeared to be more than a decade old.
  — Eric Tucker, Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2026
• The bones do not appear to be local to the area.
  — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 27 Mar. 2026
• Later, the man appears to smack the boy on the face.
  — Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 13 Jan. 2026
• The man does not appear to be injured.
  — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2026
• Her students appear to be big fans, too.
  — Janice Neumann, Chicago Tribune, 13 Mar. 2026
• There doesn’t appear to be any reason not to trust these firms.
  — Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 19 Apr. 2024
• On the side, the case has what appear to be holes for a lanyard.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 26 June 2022
• The wound from the spear is deep, but appears to be healing.
  — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
• The man appeared to be right-handed.
  — Paige Williams, New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2026
• To some extent, this appears to have worked.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 7 Feb. 2026
• Within a few hours/days/weeks, a book appears.
  — Literary Hub, 18 June 2026
• Allen’s punch appeared to come just after the ball went across the line.
  — Seth Emerson, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
• These second and third strikes appear to have caused most of the deaths.
  — Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 1 Sep. 2025
• The efforts appear to have helped.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2025
• These tiny life forms can appear thread-like, tubular, or dome-shaped.
  — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 28 May 2026
• The boy, whose face is blurred in the video, then appears to grab the left side of his head.
  — Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 13 Jan. 2026
• Edge is set to appear in court on Monday.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 28 Sep. 2025
• Success is no longer defined by where a brand appears once.
  — Lora Kratchounova, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
• None of this appears to have harmed the careers of those involved.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 23 Sep. 2023
• Busfield will next appear in court to be arraigned on the charges.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 6 Feb. 2026