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.
• Kinne said one-on-one matchups on the perimeter seem to be a thing of the past.
  — Greg Luca, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Sep. 2022
• Like many things in My New Friends, this seems like a stretch.
  — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2024
• The Bosa brothers seem to be ships passing in the night.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2023
• Bert is a little gray on the chin but doesn't seem to feel it at all!
  — The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 27 Oct. 2024
• There doesn’t seem to be much more to it than water ice.
  — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 8 Dec. 2022
• No one seems to care that this happened, from the guests to the staff to the local police.
  — Jodi Guglielmi, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2025
• 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 percentage of claims that are low risk seems to be growing by the day.
  — Tom Cullinan, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
• 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
• Yes, the >$100 price point might seem a lot for an unassuming slide.
  — Samson McDougall, Verywell Health, 2 Dec. 2024
• Investors can't seem to make up their minds about the CPI data.
  — Hannah Miao, WSJ, 14 Feb. 2023
• There don’t seem to be any answers for what ails the offense around Rodgers.
  — Mark Maske, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Oct. 2022
• And these days there seem to be no rules at all, which hurts my head, not to mention my heart.
  — Ellyn Laub, Sun Sentinel, 22 Dec. 2022
• 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
• After Rodón got two quick outs, the Dodgers didn’t seem to have much brewing.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2024
• Gray clouds frequently filled the skies, and at many hours, the sun seemed subdued by them.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2023
• That may seem like the sign of a flailing GOP in a place where the party should be at its strongest.
  — Eric Cortellessa, Time, 1 Nov. 2022
• 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
• In public, there didn’t seem to be signs Boss may have been struggling.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 15 Dec. 2022
• No one on the show seems to question the primacy of beauty.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2024
• 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
• While this role may seem simple, attention to detail is crucial for success.
  — Julia Korn, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
• The odometer-like graphic seems to resonate with everyday readers.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 7 Apr. 2025