How to Use semblance in a Sentence

semblance

noun
  • By the end of the reshuffling, the deck will have no semblance of order.
    Sophia Chen, WIRED, 14 Oct. 2022
  • The hemline of the frock looked like a semblance of florals.
    Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 7 May 2024
  • But how would a semblance of a shade Smith wore decades ago be a go-to now?
    Jackie Fields, People.com, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Klara, a sort of Stevens 2.0, doesn’t need to sleep or eat and lacks even the semblance of a private life.
    New York Times, 23 Feb. 2021
  • If all goes well, maybe there will be some semblance of it by the playoffs.
    Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Feb. 2021
  • The hope was to hold the Spirited Awards, or a semblance of them, on the weekend of Tales of the cocktail.
    al, 23 Apr. 2020
  • That, along with any semblance of a normal 21-year-old’s life, will have to wait.
    Kristen V Brown, Bloomberg.com, 29 Aug. 2020
  • Even the Greatest Show on Turf version of the Rams had a semblance of a defense.
    Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The only semblance of a plan the girls come up with is for Kelsey to act so boring that the show will cut her loose.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 13 May 2021
  • This could be their last chance to get some semblance of justice.
    Omar Jimenez, CNN, 2 May 2022
  • The franchise has felt some semblance of this type of pride before.
    Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The plants swayed in their seats, and their branches rustled in a semblance of applause.
    Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 June 2020
  • In the main room, scalloped with marble basins, there was a semblance of decorum, but in the side rooms, the men were young and frisky.
    New York Times, 12 May 2022
  • The 9-to-5 workday, or any semblance of it, seems like a relic of a bygone era.
    Author: Michelle Davis, Jeff Green, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Apr. 2020
  • As soon as the war started, any semblance of our normal lives was gone.
    Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2022
  • The Padres showed some semblance of their prime time lineup on Friday.
    Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Here’s hoping that some semblance of peace finds its way to the Lehigh Valley and beyond in 2021.
    Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2020
  • The pathos, tied to the loss of a parent or a loved one, gives the material some semblance of feeling.
    Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 10 Mar. 2022
  • To help keep some semblance of normalcy, Mosley lets his kids pick out a book each night.
    Callie Caplan, Dallas News, 23 July 2020
  • This was supposed to be the year that Artscape returned to a semblance of normalcy.
    Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Coming back on a winning streak could be the morale boost this team needs to return to some semblance of rhythm.
    Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Like the rest of the country, Mogadishu felt the collapse of any semblance of governance in the early 1990s.
    Amanda Sperber, Vogue, 20 May 2021
  • Writing was the only way for Kelly to feel any semblance of joy.
    Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 8 May 2023
  • Chauvin cuffed and walked out of court, a semblance of justice for those who never saw it.
    Time, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Watch whether the Cowboys can get any semblance of a running game going.
    Andrew Greif, NBC News, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Apparently, that still couldn’t give them any semblance of a boost against the Hawks.
    Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 24 Mar. 2024
  • In the uneasy middle, people are trying to hold on to some semblance of their old lives.
    Wsj Staff, WSJ, 29 Dec. 2020
  • This was a glad return to a semblance of SummerFests past.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2021
  • The Celtics desperately needed Kristaps Porziņģis to shake off this virus that has plagued him and just look like a semblance of a unicorn again.
    Jared Weiss, New York Times, 15 May 2025
  • Celebrities like Keanu Reeves seem to have cornered the market on how to be a household name while keeping some semblance of normalcy about them.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025

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