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
• 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
• 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
• Making a film about the band any other way seems like a complete waste of time.
  — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 1 Jan. 2025
• Want the Bottega or Fendi bag of the season but can’t seem to find it?
  — Hannah Seligson, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Mar. 2023
• The 23-year-old Colombia international seems an ideal fit for Pereira’s way of playing, potentially on the right side of the back three.
  — Steve Madeley, The Athletic, 14 Mar. 2025
• Matthew Golden may seem like a bit of reach given he often wasn't mocked in the first round before the combine, but taking the combine into consideration and more time leading up to the draft, he may be viewed as a clear first-round prospect by then.
  — Mark Davis, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 2025