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seem Verb

— The way something seems to be is the way you think it is when you look at it, hear about it, think about it, etc. It seems unlikely that they will remember your name after meeting you once. As odd as it may seem, the girl's best friend is an eighty year old man. It was a terrible night, but somehow it doesn't seem so bad this morning. It is still raining on him, but he doesn't seem to notice. The bad smells did not seem to bother them. The young man seemed to have forgotten all his promises. They really seemed to be enjoying what they were doing. The changes seem to suggest that the police have new information. It seems to me that we ought to try again. It seemed like forever, but I think it got there in about 12 to 15 minutes. It seemed like a crazy idea; it had never been done before. You seem like a very nice guy. The very air he was breathing seemed as if it were on fire.

seem

— verb (= look, appear) give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect She seems to be sleeping This appears to be a very difficult problem This project looks fishy They appeared like people who had not eaten or slept for a long time — verb (= appear) seem to be true, probable, or apparent It seems that he is very gifted It appears that the weather in California is very bad — verb appear to one's own mind or opinion I seem to be misunderstood by everyone I can't seem to learn these Chinese characters — verb appear to exist There seems no reason to go ahead with the project now

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appear look look like appear to be feel resemble think show be like as if act sound seen perceived look as if found evident display defective be apparently work weigh visible understood turn up thought suppose strike smell similarly similar shew sensed seemingly seem to be redound quasi prove probable present prepossess peer offer occur move methinks meseems manifest look so live

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Grammar Semantic constituents related to verbs Epistemic moods Unsure

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Simple sentences

The holidays seem to be doing her health good.
Were you born in England? You don't seem to have a British accent.
They seem surprised.
You still seem to be upset.
All the girls seem to have fallen in love with Tom.
It doesn't seem very fair.
You don't seem too happy to see me.
Tom and Mary seem to be enjoying themselves.
Tom and Mary seem to be having fun.
You seem to know a great deal about me.
You seem to be pleased with yourself.
Tom didn't seem to mind that Mary was late.
You seem an honest man.
You seem to be an honest man.
You seem to be thinking of something else.
Relations between us seem to be on the ebb.
You seem to like fruit.
Scientists seem to have known the truth.
You don't seem to understand how difficult it is for young people today to believe in something.
I seem to have caught a cold.
I seem to have caught a bad cold.
You seem to be prejudiced against ideas that come from foreign countries.
You seem to be insensible of their good intentions.
Prices seem to be going down.
Picasso's paintings seem strange to me.
Can you please tell me why there seem to be two churches in every village?

Movie subtitles

It doesn't seem like we talked to each other that much.
It seem like you like that girl. You must been embarrassed a bit.
When we're like this, it doesn't seem too different from being in Britannia.
You seem sort of cold towards her lately.
There doesn't seem to be any obvious problem.
Time really did seem to be on China's side.
Things aren't always as bad as they seem.
Um, I was wondering if maybe uh, the things and stuff you seem to be focusing on are the things and stuff that apply to the reason we are here.
You're doing everything I was supposed to do! Doesn't that seem a little telling to you?!
We have to understand that life will evolve under conditions which seem horribly hostile, horribly alien.
Talking about a murder case or what-not, didn't he seem to make the case big?
Ah, yes, that one does seem fine, but even so. it was going to rot.
You seem to be unaware but that magistrate isn't the kind of magsitrate you think he is.
People seem to be living here though..
Mmm, well, yeah. I mean, she might seem a little mad right now, but, deep down, I know she loves you.
It doesn't seem like Ms. Dekaan's gonna press charges. She wants an in-person apology.
It would seem that your comrades have finally arrived.
I lack sufficient data at this time, although it does seem as if an organization's behind this.
And on top of that, the Guardians seem to have sniffed us out, too.
Ivan, it would seem your former comrades are more competent than they appear.
It would seem that we occur in a ratio of about one in 10 million.
It doesn't seem like he's lying to us.
Yeah, thanks to all of you, but I seem to have slept in too long.
It would seem the Emperor just saw the same thing.
Did her attitude seem suspicious?
You seem unaware of the serious allegations made against you.
It's strange.. People seem to be living here though.. Hey, Storage Yard (Ghost)!
Unless something happened that'd make your problem seem very trivial.
And your insurance documents all seem to be in order.
It doesn't seem like Ms. Dekaan's gonna press charges.
They seem to have gone missing.
Well, you seem a lot calmer.
She doesn't seem capable of stabbing anyone.
In presenting this film today, it may not seem to have the same tragic effect as it had at the time.
Well, Miss Rumfort, you seem tired today.
But somehow, I don't seem to know you.
Maybe it's because you seem kinda lonesome.
And then again maybe it's because sometimes you seem like a little boy.
I can't seem to get started.
We can't seem to get together on a pose.

News and current affairs

Indeed, in closing their skies, European governments seem to have given safety absolute priority over everything else.
Yet, while the two parties now seem irreconcilable, it is not too late for compromise.
Some companies even seem to celebrate the melting of the polar ice cap, because it will reduce the cost of extracting the oil that lies beneath the Arctic Ocean.
It would seem not, as it is also true that very trusting people also have lower incomes than the average.
Once that process is underway, many problems that now seem intractable will be resolved more easily.
These may seem to be distinct issues.
The world-wide dilemma over exchange rate management is that when market pressure is not high necessary changes no longer seem so urgent.
What markets seem to have forgotten is that post-bubble, post-financial-crisis recoveries tend to be anemic.
For German conservatives, European integration and national identity are not warring concepts, as they seem to be to our opponents and so many others.
NAIROBI - With unemployment soaring, bankruptcies climbing, and stock markets in free-fall, it may at first glance seem sensible to ditch the fight against climate change and put environmental investments on hold.
Without Ecuador's gimmicks, buybacks do not seem to be the solution to Greece's debt overhang.
Higher interest rates to reduce the housing boom seem, even in retrospect, ill advised if the cost is mass unemployment.
There are arguments which make the choice far less clear-cut than it may seem.
The world's challenges seem far removed from their day-to-day lives.
It would seem that rebuilding confidence in the Federal Reserve and the Securities and Exchange Commission is economically more important than rebuilding trust in Citibank or AIG.
The findings seem to indicate that the next five years will be a make-or-break period for the region's future development.
But such a dynamic does now seem to be in motion.
The main question is whether the growing number of women in politics will deliver the different perspectives and modes of leadership that many voters (or protesters) now seem to crave.
Nor does it seem likely to emulate the splintered, individualized, solitary society - and the commodified sexual revolution - that Western, self-based feminism reflects.
The new religious militants, fighting in the name of their particular and peculiar God, seem as fanaticized as the Fascists, Nazis, and Communists of earlier decades.
Although these criticisms don't seem to bother the electorate very much, Park's path to victory may yet prove narrower than her supporters expect.
Such subsidies are a global scandal, yet large payments to largely wealthy American and Greek cotton growers seem likely to persist for many years.
There are Christians who know all about the fire and brimstone of the Book of Revelation, but seem not to have heard the instructions about generosity in the Sermon on the Mount.

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