Example Sentences

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Except disaster was seeming way less likely by then.

From New York Times • Dec. 3, 2021

By the time I booked my flight to Minneapolis, the Bachmann assignment was seeming less like an albatross than an interesting challenge—A rabbit waiting to be pulled from its hat.

From Newsweek • May 17, 2010

All was seeming paradise until Nancy Capasso found out about Bess two years after the affair started, kicked Capasso out of their $6 million Fifth Avenue duplex, and asked for alimony.

From Time Magazine Archive

This place was seeming less and less like a place every moment.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu

Whatever anesthesia had carried me through the event was starting to wear off and with each passing second the thought of sitting around all night, alone, was seeming more and more unbearable.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt