semblance
outward aspect or appearance.
an assumed or unreal appearance; show.
the slightest appearance or trace.
a likeness, image, or copy.
a spectral appearance; apparition.
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How to use semblance in a sentence
For memorable morning hours, blue sky seemed to stretch from horizon to horizon, with close scrutiny required to spot the wispiest semblance of clouds.
On Saturday, blue sky gave few signs of gathering storm | Martin Weil | January 31, 2021 | Washington PostThe vacuum insulated travel mug keeps drinks hot for hours Maintaining some semblance of a social life these days isn’t easy.
For the last four and a half years of his life, from 1963 until his death in April of 1968, King lived without any semblance of privacy.
The FBI's Surveillance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Was Relentless. But Its Findings Paint a Fuller Picture for Historians | Benjamin Hedin | January 18, 2021 | TimeIf there is any sliver of consolation to be had for the Wizards, it’s that the team finally found some semblance of a spark off the bench over the weekend.
Wizards’ Thomas Bryant expected to miss rest of season with torn ACL | Ava Wallace | January 10, 2021 | Washington PostAfter months of patients avoiding hospitals and clinics for fear of viral exposure, immunizations are coming online that promise to return society, and the drug industry, to some semblance of normal.
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And any semblance of normality that had previously existed seemed to have evaporated.
Still, amid the uncertainty the residents of Bab al-Salameh do their best to carve a semblance of order into their lives.
Millions of Refugees from Syria’s War Are Clinging to Life In Toxic Conditions | Christopher Looney | April 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd it was clear we would not even maintain a semblance of friendship.
It took months, she said, for any semblance of normality to take root.
Two Decades After Genocide, Rwanda’s Women Have Made the Nation Thrive | Nina Strochlic | April 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFirst, the Neesonesque action hero must convey some semblance of hard-earned depth, which helps older viewers identify.
Why Respected Screen Veterans Are Following Liam Neeson’s Footsteps | Andrew Romano | February 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe turned his eyes upon her; but no sympathy was in their beams; no belief in the semblance of her tears.
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4 | Jane PorterLike art, too, on its representative side, play aims at producing an imitation or semblance of something.
Children's Ways | James SullyThe imitative impulse prompting to the production of the semblance of something appears very early in child-life.
Children's Ways | James SullyA quite young child will, for example, pretend to do something, as to take an empty cup and carry out the semblance of drinking.
Children's Ways | James SullySecure in his authority, to its outward semblance he was rather indifferent.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph Tatlow
British Dictionary definitions for semblance
/ (ˈsɛmbləns) /
outward appearance, esp without any inner substance or reality
a resemblance or copy
Origin of semblance
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