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Example sentences for "strong resemblance"

  • The haughty High Priest biting his nails, is deficient in everything except his drapery: the Jew immediately behind him bears a strong resemblance to an old-clothes-man.

  • When very young, I was once in company with the Chevalier at the house of a Doctor Cheyne Harte, in Shrewsbury, and I remember his person having a strong resemblance to this print.

  • Your mother must count in some way, and you--you bear a strong resemblance to every second portrait of our ancestors in the gallery upstairs.

  • They swim with their little heads above the surface at a rapid rate, bearing a strong resemblance to water-snakes.

  • On its head it wears a peculiar fan-like crest, which, overhanging the forehead, extends to the back of the head, and which bears a strong resemblance to the plume of an ancient helmet.

  • It bears a strong resemblance in plumage and habits to the celebrated mandarin duck of China.

  • Other deities form less important parts of this system, as Dionysus, whose alternate joys and sufferings show a strong resemblance to the form which religious notions assumed in Asia Minor.

  • In the spring and summer of 1881, the power of the League was at its height; in its organisation and working it bore a strong resemblance to the Jacobin societies of the Revolution in France.

  • It is fit for use immediately it is gathered off the tree, and has a strong resemblance to the old Nonesuch, but keeps much longer.

  • This variety was raised from a seed of the old Nonpareil, to which it bears a strong resemblance, by Dr.

  • It is a fine, showy, and handsome apple, bearing a strong resemblance to the Nonesuch, from which in all probability it was raised.

  • It bears a strong resemblance to Tripoli, as we shall see.

  • In its general character this northern section bears a strong resemblance to the opposite coast of Europe, with respect to peculiarities of soil and climate and the variety of its products.

  • Its leaves are pinnated; but each division, as the Colonel notices, has a strong resemblance to the leaves of the holly.

  • The other is common to the Bouddhists and followers of the Vedas, and has a strong resemblance to the temples of the Chinese.

  • At Bhimphedi, the vegetable productions put on a strong resemblance to those of Europe.

  • The fruit is larger than that of the Cardamomum minus of Rumph, and has membraneous angles; but, in other respects, the two plants have a strong resemblance.

  • In disposition and instinct, however, these animals have a strong resemblance.

  • The Vison of Canada has a strong resemblance to our Marten; and the streaked Pole-cat of North America, is perhaps a mere variety of the European kind.

  • The prints taken from such plates bear a strong resemblance to paintings in Indian ink, or to drawings in black-lead pencil.

  • The temples of the Romans generally bore a strong resemblance to those of the Greeks, although they often differed from the specimens of that nation in several particulars.

  • In Europe no Etheostominæ are found, their place being filled by the genera Zingel and Aspro, which bear a strong resemblance to the American forms, a resemblance which may be a clue to the origin of the latter.

  • This little fish bears a strong resemblance to Ammodytes, but the affinities of the latter genus are certainly with the ophidioid fishes, while the real relationship of Cobitopsis is uncertain.

  • These species bear a strong resemblance to the star-gazers (Uranoscopus), but this likeness seems to be superficial only.

  • Brasidas bears a strong resemblance to the tropical {30} Danaine Amauris hyalites (Pl.

  • Why variations on the part of one species should bear a strong resemblance to other, and often distantly related, species is another question altogether.

  • Forms which from their colour are clearly not mimics present nevertheless the general pattern and shape of other forms which bear a strong resemblance to some Ithomiine.

  • Their eyes are uniformly dark and clear, and among some, especially the southern women, bear a strong resemblance to those of the Chinese, in the peculiarity of formation so generally observed of that people.

  • The domestic rule of a private family beyond a doubt suggested first the idea of government in society, and, this people having made but small advances in civil policy, theirs continues to retain a strong resemblance of its original.

  • Germany has, we think, in some respects a strong resemblance to the views of America.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "strong resemblance" 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:
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