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Example sentences for "seemingly"

Lexicographically close words:
seemely; seemes; seemest; seemeth; seeming; seemings; seemliness; seemly; seems; seen
  1. Numerous details, seemingly insignificant, yet potentially fatal, are to be mastered.

  2. I even resented his seemingly unforgivable delay in committing suicide, considering the impossible sentence of seventeen years.

  3. Again the minstrel bowed, and, taking his vielle in his hand, swept the chords ere he began his song, glancing as he did so round the long board, though his eye seemingly rested on none.

  4. Seemingly defeated, Louis of Orleans quitted the presence chamber, but not before humbly begging, as a special favour, that his young attendant might have speech with his mistress, the Demoiselle de Mereac.

  5. Mildred, seemingly as eager as himself that the book should be done, had at first agreed.

  6. He looked around upon his pupils, upon the distant figures of his fellow Dons, robed in the same garb, seemingly living the same life as himself.

  7. A tunnel seemingly being a practical proposition, he turned his attention to his second problem.

  8. The manager, who was a sly, evil-looking person seemingly of Eastern blood, began to hedge, but Willis cut him short with scant ceremony.

  9. In other words, the working energy contained in a seemingly powerful supply of statical electricity commonly plays but an insignificant part.

  10. Indeed, the wheel is a striking illustration of a mechanism which continued century after century to serve the purposes of the practical worker, with seemingly no prospect of displacement.

  11. But we have now to offer a seemingly paradoxical modification of this statement.

  12. This granular surface of even seemingly smooth objects, is easily visualized through the analogy of numberless substances that are visibly rough.

  13. Its course is controlled by natural selection, the action of which, at any given moment, is seemingly small or insensible; but the ultimate results are great.

  14. Is it compatible with our seemingly inbore conception of Nature as an ordered system?

  15. We are not disposed nor prepared to take sides for or against the new hypothesis, and so, perhaps, occupy a good position from which to watch the discussion and criticise those objections which are seemingly inconclusive.

  16. But we are not sure that the greater variableness of cultivated races is not mainly owing to the far greater opportunities for manifestation and accumulation--a view seemingly all the more favorable to Mr. Darwin's theory.

  17. The overlapping of existing and extinct species, and the seemingly gradual transition of the life of the drift period into that of the present, may be turned to the same account.

  18. The blow was so severe that it almost unhorsed the Governor, and seemingly caused, as he afterwards said, the fire to flash from his eyes.

  19. At length he quietly took the quiver from his shoulder, and slowly and seemingly lost in deep reflection, drew out the arrows one by one.

  20. The one on the right is fortified, yet withal so green and pretty, and seemingly so innocent of bellicose designs, that one may fancy Nature has taken peculiar pains to heal and hide the disfigurements grim Art has made in her beauty.

  21. Love-making is the occupation of those that have none, and Arnswald's hours were seemingly well-filled.

  22. It is seemingly engraved on wood (Smith’s Relation of Alvar Nuñez Cabeça de Vaca, p.

  23. It is without date, but seemingly of about the middle of the sixteenth century.

  24. French rendering of a text, seemingly made up of the first and second letters, and probably following a Spanish original, now lost, which was printed at Antwerp in 1523.

  25. Molineaux seemingly made use of the results of Cabrillo’s voyage, as indicated by the Spanish names placed along the coast.

  26. It was seemingly written in the summer of 1564, and is the earliest account which was printed.

  27. This map has seemingly some relation to a map, preserved in the Propaganda at Rome, of which mention is made by Thomassy, Les papes géographes, p.

  28. Quite recent exhumations made by our archæologists have seemingly set the question at rest, by revealing in the bones of our prehistoric races the evidences of the prevalence of such diseases.

  29. All went well for some time after the Béarnais left me; but at length I became fairly bewildered by the woods and ravines, the hills and valleys that lay before me in seemingly endless succession.

  30. The vine clambers over ruined houses and old walls built on to the rock, and seemingly a part of it.

  31. The sexual organs are seemingly affected, many men are "almost scared to death" and they use all sorts of quack remedies to restore their sexual vigor.

  32. Dinner dances" have largely taken the place of balls, the latter having seemingly passed into the hands of clubs and assemblies or being known as "subscription dances.

  33. I wish to add that parents should always attend to the seemingly harmless "fits" in their young children.

  34. Sometimes if you watch a patient closely when she is seemingly unconscious, you will see, if you look at her very guardedly, that one eyelid is not entirely closed, and that the patient really sees much that is occurring around her.

  35. If this disease occurs in the winter the person attacked, after he is seemingly well, must be careful not to take cold.

  36. The onset is usually sudden; often the child is put to bed at night seemingly well and in the morning is found paralyzed in one or more limbs.

  37. In fatal cases the patient passes into seemingly deep sleep with symptoms of a very prostrating and weakening fever, and often retention of urine.

  38. Care in such little seemingly foolish things will do wonderful things for a rheumatic person.

  39. The child is feverish, fretful and peevish, seemingly suffering great pain, and the parents think it is, not very sick or has only an earache.

  40. If the milk is scanty, it nurses long; at other times it tries the breast and turns away seemingly disgusted.

  41. One man, Lieutenant Pyrineus, having his hands full, tried to hold one fish by putting its head into his mouth; it was a piranha and seemingly stunned, but in a moment it recovered and bit a big section out of his tongue.

  42. Yet there has been much fever at this beautiful and seemingly healthy place.

  43. Around the upper arms of two of them were bands bound so tightly as to cut into and deform the muscles--a singular custom, seemingly not only purposeless but mischievous, which is common among this tribe and many others.

  44. Bruce swung his canoe so he could watch the other without cramping his neck, for he saw that something like a struggle was taking place, the masked man seemingly holding some object helpless in the bottom of the frail craft.

  45. After a little he found himself looking upward into the opening, and far, far away, seemingly miles distant, he imagined he could detect a ray of light.

  46. Without saying a word, Cromwell gently disengaged himself from the fair suppliant, and, turning his back upon her, stalked to the further end of the apartment, seemingly much agitated.

  47. Seemingly grateful for his assistance, she asked him to come near her, that she might kiss his hand.

  48. Mr. Kirk was walking near his manse on a Dun Shie, or fairy mound, when he sank down apparently in a faint, and seemingly died.

  49. On the priests addressing their oracles, they became so excited that they remained for hours seemingly in great agony.

  50. Rumour, with its thousand tongues, spread the report that Margaret Nin-Gilbert, a confederate of Olson, was one of the cats which had been seemingly killed.

  51. Having thus excited the king's curiosity, she abruptly left the apartment, seemingly with the intention of bringing some other strange article for his inspection.

  52. Mangled, and seemingly lifeless, the carcass was cast into the open air.

  53. The Manes, it was supposed, descended into the infernal regions, the Anima ascended to the skies, and Umbra hovered about the tomb, seemingly unwilling to depart from the body.

  54. The artist worked with diligence, seemingly with an apprehension that he would not live to complete the piece.

  55. A house at Athens was haunted by a spirit which roamed through the apartments at night, seemingly dragging a heavy chain after it.

  56. A few graceless fellows in the company began to eat and drink before a blessing was asked, and seemingly fared well.

  57. Then they applied the chloroform once more; I felt Hatasou give my hand a gentle squeeze; the whole panorama faded finally from my view; and I went to sleep for a seemingly endless time.

  58. Never as long as I live shall I forget the ecstasy of terror, astonishment, and blank dismay which seized upon me when I stepped into that seemingly enchanted chamber.

  59. The situation was grotesque, utterly bizarre; but even my sense of humour could not save me from the growing dread which this seemingly deserted place poured into my heart.

  60. But above the reflector, at an acute angle, this mysterious beam was seemingly projected upward.

  61. In 1874, a seemingly helpless invalid, he made his home in the Adirondack Mountains.

  62. Meanwhile, being chargeable with the distribution of official patronage, he began to flounder about in explanation of his action in a sea of seemingly endless perplexities.

  63. Though her life was seemingly beclouded by a spirit of sadness, she was in disposition amiable and generally cheerful.

  64. The boys who lived there were a terror to the entire region--seemingly a necessary product of frontier civilization.

  65. I have heard her say that myself, and after mingling in society in Springfield she repeated the seemingly absurd and idle boast.

  66. Such talents were not logical reasons for being confident that he could solve the alien's seemingly invincible weapon, but she was inclined to feel so.

  67. He started back with the device turned on once more and at the point where he'd felt the beam's manifestations faintly, he stopped to savor his now seemingly useless triumph.

  68. Graham was soon out again, but he looked older and more broken than his wife, who seemingly had passed by age into a bloom that could not fade.

  69. Mrs. Mayburn and Graham were perplexed, for Grace had seemingly become remote from them all.

  70. Mrs. Mayburn had walked slowly on, and seemingly he had forgotten her.

  71. Hopeful, almost confident, for success and prosperity had seemingly made a league with him in all things, he was content to wait.

  72. But it would cost me my life were it found out, so it must be seemingly by chance.

  73. The air about me was ringing with vibrations of weird, unearthly music, seemingly as much around me as it was above and behind me.

  74. It came in a rain of gold and seemingly from all points of the compass.

  75. There, after about ten minutes, she gradually regained her consciousness, and seemingly none the worse for her experiences she sat up and asked what had happened.

  76. Five of them, seemingly of a superior order, who brought a letter of recommendation to a gentleman of this town, have fixed their abode there.


  77. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seemingly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.