How to Use seeming in a Sentence
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By the end of the video, each man reaches the top of a ledge and jumps off to their seeming demise.
—Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 10 Feb. 2022
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And not even something as ubquitous seeming today as Zoom will be immune.
—Abram Brown, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2021
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Calderon was struck by their larger-than-life magnetism, with some seeming to smirk and others shooting a side-eye.
—Sandra Upson, Wired, 11 Nov. 2021
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Dillon and the cop both point toward the stands, with the latter seeming to tell the running back to get back in the stands.
—Kassidy Hill, USA TODAY, 24 July 2022
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Yet employees who skip run the risk of seeming checked out or disconnected from their teammates.
—Kathryn Dill, WSJ, 6 Jan. 2022
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Being anti-sentimental to the point of seeming coldhearted was at the core of his art.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022
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But a seeming cease fire - at least temporarily - has let crude values fall back down below $60.
—Jordan Blum, Houston Chronicle, 15 Jan. 2020
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Colombia pounced on the (seeming) error, and Bacca broke in and beat Pickford.
—Andrew Das, New York Times, 5 July 2018
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Even something as innocent-seeming as your level of extraversion can be used by marketers to boost product sales.
—Hannah Hickok, Glamour, 20 Oct. 2021
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Villanelle would take a few more bullets before floating away lifeless, the blood around her seeming to form angel wings, her hand just out of reach of Eve's.
—Dan Snierson, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2022
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Open and airy seeming, with two roasting ovens, the dangers of diacetyl and 2,3 pentandione were not obvious.
—Raquel Rutledge, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 Sep. 2017
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Use of the police body camera is rising, with the majority of officers and public seeming to favor them.
—Kurt Snibbe, The Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2017
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Some are sympathetic figures, some heroic, some seeming to play the victim card for arbitrary reasons.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 June 2022
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His hard-line positions quickly catapulted him from a seeming also-ran in a crowded field to surprise front-runner.
—Kirk Semple, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2018
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In Murphy’s typical way, there are plot twists — deaths and revivals, with the specter of the supernatural seeming to wax and wane.
—Daniel D'addario, Variety, 13 Oct. 2022
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In fact, Malcolm is pained by her own seeming indifference to her mother’s needs and desperations.
—Sam Adler-Bell, The New Republic, 20 Mar. 2023
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What about the infamous footage of her seeming to drift off during the 2015 State of the Union address?
—Michael O’Sullivan, kansascity, 10 May 2018
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For example, the first course’s collard greens were pickled instead of traditionally stewed, a seeming nod to kimchi.
—Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2021
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Of course, no human can be distilled into a single word, and there’s a case to be made that Lightfoot is all these things, even in their seeming contradiction.
—Mary Schmich, chicagotribune.com, 21 May 2021
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Rising from his seeming ‘death,’ Joe will re-emerge as his former self — Ninja Kamui — to avenge his family and friends.
—James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 May 2022
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Seeming and being were, and remain, magnetic poles of Basquiat’s genius, and elements of a fungible myth.
—Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 26 May 2017
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The Great Khan required absolute submission, but even repression has some seeming perks.
—Zeynep Tufekci, WIRED, 24 June 2019
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The city has a shameful record of seeming to drift away from its Vision Zero goal of ending traffic deaths by 2024.
—Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2021
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The former vice president began the year seeming destined to lose the Democratic primary.
—Mark Z. Barabak Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2020
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But the mayor ought to answer why, in light of this seeming betrayal, businesses still should feel confident discussing sensitive matters with him.
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 4 June 2026
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There are other seeming anomalies in the records, according to Finders Keepers’ legal motion.
—Michael Rubinkam, Fortune, 18 Feb. 2023
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There are other seeming anomalies in the records, according to Finders Keepers' legal motion.
—CBS News, 18 Feb. 2023
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The same cannot be said of recent viewers, more and more of whom read the playing-off of those who win lesser-seeming awards earlier in the evening as acts of institutional disrespect.
—Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2023
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Not just because of the tensions around vaccinations, or the optics of a luxury sweatshirt seeming to transform a vaccine into a status symbol.
—New York Times, 21 Sep. 2021
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The images of Ehlinger seeming to stand alone as the song was played infuriated some in the Texas community, who wanted the entire team on the field as the song played.
—Nicholas Reimann, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2021
- I was fooled by the seeming simplicity of the instructions.
- Parents discussed the teacher's seeming lack of interest in the students.
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And the seeming lack of action is puzzling, to say the least.
—Ed Silverman, STAT, 27 July 2021
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Here are some of the best tweets about the seeming lack of safety precautions.
—oregonlive, 8 Feb. 2021
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But his seeming call to overturn the election sounds a lot like their warning.
—Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 1 June 2021
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Another room waits for us all of course, and only there is there no more seeming.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2026
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Hopper caught that the seeming sadness of city life is also part of its gaiety.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2022
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Both versions satirize a seeming city of gold that turns out to be anything but that.
—Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2021
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Why had there been a seeming rush to embalm the body, without an autopsy?
—Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2021
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The seeming lack of consciousness is a point of contention about what happened that night.
—Ivana Hrynkiw | [email protected], al, 19 Aug. 2022
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The seeming indifference from the people on the beach stayed with her.
—New York Times, 19 May 2021
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Many pro-Trump voices seem to have taken the bait with a seeming lack of self-awareness.
—Steven Greenhut, Oc Register, 22 Aug. 2025
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But, over the decades, this seeming weakness would prove to be Jump’s advantage.
—Matt Alt, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
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The dropout issues have vexed Ryzen customers for months, with no seeming rhyme or reason for the cause.
—Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, 12 Mar. 2021
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The difference is that for Butler, there has been a seeming ease of offense.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 11 May 2022
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From here, trees and water stretched out into a seeming infinity of greens and blues.
—Marc Berman august 15, Literary Hub, 15 Aug. 2025
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If truth be told, Markus is equally shattered by the seeming randomness of the tragedy.
—Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 13 May 2021
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His seeming sacrifice—one of several tear-your-hair-out twists—reads as a holy act of forgiveness.
—The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2021
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Like the city’s many seeming contradictions, they are meant to coexist.
—Beandrea July, IndieWire, 28 Jan. 2026
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Pink’s fans were quick to comment on the seeming connection with the singer’s stage name and signature hair color.
—Emma Banks, InStyle, 27 Feb. 2026
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Of the seeming lack of Hollywood attention this year?
—Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 12 May 2026
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And a seeming shift in law enforcement strategy that puts more focus on dark web vendors than the sites themselves.
—Brian Barrett, Wired, 26 Oct. 2021
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Perhaps the only positive thing that came from the pandemic was a seeming pause of mass shootings.
—Sarah Krueger, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 May 2021
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Now, a seeming contradiction—funding for e-commerce startups is at a low.
—Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 25 Nov. 2025
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The seeming randomness of the strikes intensifies the feeling among some that survival might come down to sheer luck.
—Phil McCausland, NBC News, 21 July 2022
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Others may just be uncomfortable with the seeming speed at which the vaccines were developed.
—Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2021
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The seeming spontaneity on the field is intended to create moments.
—Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 July 2022
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We’re simply left alone with an addict and his feelings—or, occasionally, his seeming lack of them.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
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South Korea and Japan diverged from the seeming regional trend.
—Washington Post, 23 June 2021
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The lack of resources can be compounded by the seeming complexity of certain tools or a lack of training.
—Amber Gray-Fenner, Forbes, 7 June 2021
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