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resemble English

Meaning resemble meaning

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Definitions in simple English

resemble

If two things resemble each other, it means they are similar or look like one another. Modern computers do not resemble computers from the 1970's.

resemble

appear like; be similar or bear a likeness to She resembles her mother very much This paper resembles my own work

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resemble · verb

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Simple sentences

The twins do resemble each other.
These two brothers resemble each other.
The two buses resemble each other at first glance.
Young tigers resemble cats.
I resemble my mother.
They resemble each other in all respects.
Which parent does the child resemble?
Which of your parents do you resemble?
The people we meet in books can delight us either because they resemble the friends we hold dear in real life, or because they are unfamiliar people that we are pleased to get to know.
Politics can sometimes resemble grammar: An error that everyone commits is finally recognized as a rule.
I'm not Tom, though I do resemble him somewhat.
Most constellations don't really resemble the creatures or characters they are named after.
Much as we resemble one another, none of us are exactly alike.
All happy families resemble each other, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
I think you resemble your mother.

Movie subtitles

I've been told I resemble him.
I assure you, mine in no way resemble them.
How do you explain that my daughters resemble me so little?
You resemble your father very much.
May this new age resemble that which witnessed your son's humility on earth.
Would any of you gentlemen care to deny that if this juicy little scandal leaked out now the annual shareholders meeting would resemble an orchestra of scorched cats.
I think they resemble you amazingly, Uncle Matt.
Well, they, they resemble humans.
If many Fenwickians resemble each other, this may be ascribed to the founder, who was in every way, the father of his country.
You do resemble her.
He told me of that statue you three loved that I apparently resemble.
I resemble Dr. Salvatore so much.
Alas, you resemble your father.
From a meteorological standpoint, conditions almost resemble mid-winter.
Well, this does resemble me, doesn't it?
This man doesn't resemble him in any detail.
It's terrible to be in love, to love like Romeo when you resemble Bluebeard.
If we have a child, which of us will it resemble?
Well, I'd rather be dead than resemble a sieve.
Alliances between nations, as my years with the diplomatic corps have often shown, resemble - if you'll pardon the analogy - ceritain marriages.
OCCASIONALLY BRING ABOUT STRANGE RESULTS, JUST AS POTATOES OCCASIONALLY RESEMBLE EMINENT STATESMEN.
Well, they resemble humans.
Your daughter doesn't resemble you. In fact, there's an amazing difference.
Unfortunately, people always come to resemble those they live with.
It seems you resemble your mother somewhat. One never knows.
I'm not, but won't he be when you arrive and don't exactly resemble your picture?
I resemble our mother- solid and proper and dull.
Doesn't it resemble someone?
Let's see if she really does resemble me.
You know you don't resemble him at all.
They resemble you.
The children don't resemble me.
But the faces one encounters there don't resemble the Pantocrator or the glory of Christ.
I also resemble my farther.
Immense beings, a hundred limbs which resemble tentacles, minds of such controlling capacity that each limb is capable of performing a different function.

News and current affairs

The mathematical models that macroeconomists have may resemble weather models in some respects, but their structural integrity is not guaranteed by anything like a solid, immutable theory.
The global market today is the very model of what scientists call a complex adaptive system, which are nonlinear and tend to resemble biological rather than mechanical systems.
In another sense, too, our current conditions resemble those that existed before Lenin's revolution.
Located on campus, the program's facilities resemble colorful Google offices, but with a Finnish twist: video conference rooms have been built into sauna-like structures.
The International Space Station, currently under construction, does not resemble the large, rotating wheels presented by Kubrick, Clarke, and von Braun.
Even many aspects of their behavior resemble our own.
The work of researchers like Jane Goodall, Diane Fossey, Birute Galdikas, Frans de Waal, and many others amply demonstrates that the great apes are intelligent beings with strong emotions that in many ways resemble our own.
Apparently, the specter of government deadlock causing a humiliating default suddenly made the US resemble the European countries that really are teetering on the brink.
Liquid assets are assets that resemble cash, because they can easily be converted into cash and used to buy other assets.
Barack Obama's foreign policy will thus resemble that of George Bush - the father, that is, not the son.
Instead, a populist-nationalist revolution might resemble the attempt to overthrow Mikhail Gorbachev in August 1991, or a Russian version of Ukraine's Orange Revolution.
Their interiors resemble the inside of a smooth plastic jar; there are no hard edges; hooks fold down; there is no bedding that one can use to strangle oneself.
Worse yet, her surgeries seem designed to make her resemble the actress Angelina Jolie.
The kind of fiscal integration and centralized power that they would require do not even remotely resemble those in place in the US.
No one should rush to judgment yet, but Thein Sein's decisions, at least so far, are beginning to resemble those of South Africa's de Klerk when he initiated his country's reform process.
This matters, because countries, like individuals, tend to emulate others that they resemble and admire.
This summer's Olympics in Beijing will be no less political, but will it resemble Berlin or Seoul?
In other words, modern government finance had come to resemble sub-prime mortgages, which created the illusion of universal home ownership; rules and limits no longer applied.
In a sense, central banks have begun to resemble medieval philosophical faculties, with discussions addressing the issues underlying policy decisions, rather than just the policies themselves.
These young people want progress, not power; they want the future to resemble the life that they see on the Internet and in the West.
In this sense, modern central bankers resemble the British army in the Battle of Singapore in 1942.
Pakistani-style dress has become common, as is the long hair that is thought to resemble the style of the Prophet Mohammad.
Strategic studies of the cyber domain resemble nuclear strategy in the 1950s: analysts are still not clear about the meaning of offense, defense, deterrence, escalation, norms, and arms control.
So it is unsettling that policymakers in many Western economies today resemble the second group of pilots.
Thus, the prime minister's office will more closely resemble the US White House, which he hopes will enable both countries to communicate their intentions continuously and reliably.
Of course, French crimes during Algeria's war of independence resemble those of Nazi Germany in neither scale nor motivation.
In other words, China's growth pattern is coming to resemble that of industrialized economies.
So, too, have protestors around the world made George W. Bush resemble Hitler, and mullahs throughout the Islamic world ritualistically harangue US presidents as earthly Satans, simultaneously noting their basic affection for the American people.
Against this background, it seems likely that the new world order will resemble the bipolar order of the Cold War - but only on the surface.

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