Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "might seem"

  • It is certainly true that we are often able to detach ourselves from ourselves and to watch the struggle going on between two opposite motive-forces, quite unaware, it might seem, and almost indifferent, as to how the contest will end.

  • To some temperaments it might seem as though this reduction of the immense unfathomable universe to a congeries of living souls were a strangling limitation.

  • To such a temperament it might seem as though to be jostled throughout eternity by other living souls were to be shut up in an unescapable prison.

  • It might seem as though something had frozen his urbanity and cheerfulness.

  • Indeed, as presently they reached the highroad, he thought she became cold and reserved, it might seem, too, that he somewhat bored her.

  • It might seem as though, during the afternoon, the two had talked on matters of greater interest than the tombs of Egyptian kings.

  • It might seem as though he had been balked in his desire, as though some cruel disappointment had made him angry.

  • Any one else who sees and feels and hears the table will agree with this description, so that it might seem as if no difficulty would arise; but as soon as we try to be more precise our troubles begin.

  • It might seem as though we were quite sure of being the same person to-day as we were yesterday, and this is no doubt true in some sense.

  • In this case it might seem as though we were dealing with the particulars that have the property rather than with the property.

  • Ashley reconciled himself so swiftly to Judge Roscoe's insistence that he should remain to tea that it might seem he had come for that express purpose.

  • The vast subject of the abstract values of right and wrong, the ultimate decrees of conscience, whether in matters of great or minute importance, might seem inexhaustible in itself.

  • Sometimes these feints were entirely relinquished, and intervals of absolute inaction continued so long that it might seem a matter of doubt why the two lines were there at all, with so vague a similitude of war.

  • He might seem to be lounging, or only amusing himself, but his mind was always active, and active for good.

  • It might seem at first sight to be a point of similarity between them that each revelled in his way in the scenery of the beautiful island which was their home.

  • I might seem lacking in affection otherwise, and that would be to do myself an injustice, and yourselves, your father and mother, an injury, that of seeming insensible to their true worth.

  • It might seem as if, contrary to the proverb, change of climate had wrought some change in the disposition of the cardinal.

  • But in order to manifest the glory of the risen Christ, He was not desirous of living with them constantly as He had done before, lest it might seem that He rose unto the same life as before.

  • The reason of this was lest, if the sacraments retained the same appearance, it might seem to be the continuation of one and the same sacrament, where there was no interruption of time.

  • Such a flood, in its tempestuous unrest, might seem to threaten destruction, or at best the vain dispersal of its own power into chaos.

  • It might seem well to her advantage to divide the blame here, but she had not attempted to do so.

  • Twould be but reasonable to have a platter of fish for her when she came--but the straight road to the water lay by the way she would come, and it might seem.

  • It might seem at first, as if this also was merely onomatopoetic.

  • As language can have no other object but to express our meaning, it might seem to follow almost by necessity that language should contain neither more nor less than what is required for that purpose.

  • It might seem, therefore, to some, to derive its life from them, instead of being itself a proper fountain of vitality.

  • This incident, trifling as it might seem, led Franklin to a long train of reflections and calculations in respect to the sweeping of the streets of cities, and to the formation of plans which were afterward adopted with much success.

  • What I am now doing is almost an act of despair; for it might seem at first sight that no member of the family of Mademoiselle de Courteheuse must show himself more pitiless than yourself towards the faults with which I am reproached.

  • And there was yet a fourth line upon which Miss Nightingale might seem to be predestined for this special work.

  • The defect which Mr. Mill and Mr. Jowett saw in her Suggestions for Thought might seem to be among the last to be expected in her.

  • The first alternative, though it might seem to promise the best hope of recovery, was soon put away: it offered small temptation to a man of Herbert's buoyancy of spirit and high sense of public duty.

  • For though it might seem no wonderful thing to prevent the design, and punish the conspirators, yet to defeat the greatest of all conspiracies with so little disturbance, trouble, and commotion, was very extraordinary.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "might 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:
    derive from; especially those; fair friend; later work; leave their; might become; might bring; might call; might come; might fall; might here; might hope; might just; might naturally; might possibly; might redeem; might seem; might serve; mightie armie; mighty great; mighty king; mighty merry; mighty nice; mighty nigh; mighty well; veal cutlets