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Example sentences for "may seem"

  • Odd as it may seem, I found a certain kind of similarity between the lure of these purely mental exercises and the appeal of music.

  • It may seem odd, but I can never think of my arrival in this country without hearing the ringing footfalls of this official and beholding the yellow eyes of the black cat which stared at us at the Hoboken pier.

  • Also ask for, if available, a list of publications issued by the department, from which you may later select such as may seem to be useful.

  • Of course, each of us is only one of a great many members in a large community, and we may seem to be very unimportant.

  • It may seem to be the thrifty thing to go to work; but real thrift is shown by careful choice of vocation, and by thorough preparation for it, even though it requires sacrifices that seem difficult (see pp.

  • Among the people Jurgis lived with now money was valued according to an entirely different standard from that of the people of Packingtown; yet, strange as it may seem, he did a great deal less drinking than he had as a workingman.

  • To the uninformed it may seem that no very great advance is made when the reptile is evolved from the Amphibian.

  • It may seem that if we set aside the disputable evidence of the Eoliths and the Java remains we can say nothing whatever on this subject.

  • I did not wish to go in, but, strange as it may seem to you, I was afraid to walk home, and so had to follow my company.

  • I may seem to you very foolish and Quixotic, but there is no earthly think I would not do or suffer for you.

  • It may seem ludicrous to you that her beauty should irritate me so greatly because of its incongruous associations.

  • In view of the general amelioration of the conditions of life this seems unreasonable and illogical, but it may seem less so when we reflect that human nature is unchanged, and that which has to be satisfied in this world is the mind.

  • Paradoxical as it may seem, it is perfectly true that the greatest hinderance to their permanent interest is the information they furnish.

  • It may seem treacherous, but so I was resolved.

  • It may seem a little thing to you, perhaps, but it came like a sudden blow to me.

  • They are placed in their best condition, no matter how poor and worthless they may seem.

  • Our ideal, however unpractical it may seem at the first sight, can be realized.

  • That's an odd reason, but it may seem convincing to a Frenchwoman.

  • Footnote 36: Strange as it may seem, this festival was not without a precedent.

  • Thirdly, it may seem odd to say so, just after inculcating that party organisation is the vital principle of representative government, but that organisation is permanently efficient, because it is not composed of warm partisans.

  • I may seem to be drawing a caricature, but I have not reached the worst.

  • After saying that the division of the legislature and the executive in Presidential governments weakens the legislative power, it may seem a contradiction to say that it also weakens the executive power.

  • I therefore recommend that appropriations be made for completing such works as have been already begun and for commencing such others as may seem to the wisdom of Congress to be of public and general importance.

  • Yet I trust that in view of the great responsibility resting upon me you will perceive no want of respect to yourselves in any undue earnestness I may seem to display.

  • I say it may seem so, for I do not admit that this or any other argument in favor of repudiation can be entertained as sound; but its influence on some classes of minds may well be apprehended.

  • You may cling to some doctrine as absolutely and necessarily true, yet to my mind it may seem a shallow delusion, like the vagaries of spirit- rappers.

  • Your singing fascinates me, yet, strange as it may seem, it very often makes me weep.

  • Strange as it may seem, she is too entirely engrossed by her weak fondness for display and admiration even to caress her babe.

  • In this monument of Greek chivalry, pensive and visionary as it may seem, those old Greek knights live with a truth like that of Homer or Chaucer.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "may seem" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    come true; found also; independent states; may also; may call; may come; may find; may have; may here; may make; may not; may observe; may say; may see; may suppose; may the; may well; maybe you; mayest thou; mayst thou; morning sickness; prostrated himself; small army; thou holy; under obligation; west part