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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• But Caleb seemed unfazed and enjoyed looking at the lights around him.
  — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2023
• Though snails may not seem the most luminous of creatures, snail essence has become a skin-care hero in recent years.
  — Kiana Murden, Vogue, 14 Dec. 2024
• The triumph of Donald Trump, who has pledged to increase fossil-fuel production and to (yet again) pull the U.S. out of the negotiating process, makes progress over the next four years seem unlikely.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 29 Dec 2024