How to Use seem in a Sentence

seem

verb

• What they're doing doesn't seem right to me.
• I tried to cheer them up because they seemed depressed.
• Like many things in My New Friends, this seems like a stretch.
  — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2024
• High school seemed as good a time as any to start investing in the cause.
  — Charlotte Collins, Architectural Digest, 11 Sep. 2024
• This might seem small, but in just five years, the outage time has doubled in the US.
  — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 1 July 2024
• The news seemed to have sent a chill through the niche community.
  — Nick Stoico, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2023
• The chances of one of them opening the season on the two-deep at Sam or Jack linebacker seem high.
  — oregonlive, 2 Aug. 2023
• The result is that the company can’t seem to hire fast enough.
  — Sydney Ember, New York Times, 2 June 2023
• Maybe this qualifies as the trap line among the four play-in games, but this seems far too high.
  — Nick Hennion, Chicago Tribune, 12 Apr. 2023
• Your friend seems not to have noticed the change in attitudes.
  — Nicholas Ivor Martin and Jacobina Martin, oregonlive, 10 July 2023
• Gray clouds frequently filled the skies, and at many hours, the sun seemed subdued by them.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2023
• At first glance, the items listed for sale on Craigslist seemed benign: Blue socks.
  — Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2024
• But what may have seemed like a low-stakes partnership sparked a firestorm.
  — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 21 July 2023
• The lid’s dark, varnished inlay seemed to swirl and shimmer like the surface of Venus.
  — David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2024
• The sorrow and beauty in it seemed too sharp to have come from a grief that wasn’t personal.
  — Caleb Crain, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
• Satellite imagery showed that nearly two-thirds of the lake seems to have been drained.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 5 Oct. 2023
• Unlike most potholes, the one seen in the video seemed to have a specific shape that could have been cut out of the ground.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2023
• Movie stars showed up on the sidelines at practice, and Carroll seemed to fit in among them.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2024
• Kate Holstein At first, the path seems easy: almost a Sunday stroll rather than a hike.
  — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 10 July 2023
• The senators, though, did not seem to be happy with the response.
  — Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 17 May 2023
• The story seemed like one Alex Morgan might tell around a campfire.
  — Juliet MacUr, New York Times, 21 July 2023
• On the surface, detoxing our underarms seems like the right thing to do.
  — Akili King, Essence, 14 May 2024
• All seems to be off to a good start when the pair reunite in a tearful, airport greeting.
  — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 4 Dec. 2023
• The case seems unsolvable, but a special team of detectives follow the path to the truth.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 7 Apr. 2024
• Image The still lifes are built around themes, and some seem straightforward.
  — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 7 June 2024
• From the ground, Arizona may seem like a dusty desert with very little water.
  — Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 12 July 2024
• The addition of llamas seems all to fitting for the always-quirky PDX.
  — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 28 Dec. 2023
• That might have seemed enough to commend a mid-December day.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2023
• Attention on other goals seemed to act as a sort of buffer against the stress of elite sport, Lavallee said.
  — Talia Barrington, The Atlantic, 6 Aug. 2024
• She was criticized for bringing cases that seemed doomed in court — winning such cases would depend on persuading judges of new legal thinking, a project of years or decades.
  — Andrew Prokop, Vox, 15 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Oct 2024