SEEMINGLY in a Sentence

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1. He is now seemingly quiet for a spell.
2. The bed seemed to occupy most of the room.
3. He seemed undecided whether to go or stay.
4. The loudspeaker seemed to distort his voice.
5. The argument seemed to have considerable merit.

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 Meanings and Examples of SEEMINGLY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
seemingly
 ad.  apparently; supposedly
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Now, as then, he stood listlessly in his place, seemingly a tranquil watcher of the scene before him.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
2  The only sail noticeable was a foreign schooner with all sails set, which was seemingly going westwards.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
3  He said he had seen him not ten minutes before, seemingly asleep in his bed, when he had looked through the observation-trap in the door.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  He is a seemingly arbitrary man, but this is because he knows what he is talking about better than any one else.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  There on the bed, seemingly in a swoon, lay poor Lucy, more horribly white and wan-looking than ever.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
6  After another hour Lucy waked from her sleep, fresh and bright and seemingly not much the worse for her terrible ordeal.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
7  Somewhere near, a passing bell was tolling; the dogs all round the neighbourhood were howling; and in our shrubbery, seemingly just outside, a nightingale was singing.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
8  She was still sleeping, and the Professor seemingly had not moved from his seat at her side.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
9  There lay Lucy, seemingly just as we had seen her the night before her funeral.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
10  We continued to talk for some time; and, seeing that he was seemingly quite reasonable, she ventured, looking at me questioningly as she began, to lead him to his favourite topic.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
11  The floor was seemingly inches deep, except where there were recent footsteps, in which on holding down my lamp I could see marks of hobnails where the dust was cracked.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
12  For a moment or two we stood appalled, all save Lord Godalming, who was seemingly prepared for such an emergency.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
13  He is now seemingly quiet for a spell.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
14  It seemingly had driven the snow clouds from us, for, with only occasional bursts, the snow fell.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
15  He came and clasped her hand, seemingly without knowing what he was saying or doing.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXIII
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  It seemed that nobody knew anything about the matter.
17  The room was so lovely it seemed churlish to argue.
18  The argument seemed to have considerable merit.
19  There seemed to be no clear motive for the attack.
20  He never paid attention in class and seemed to be in a permanent daydream.
21  Her sparing use of make-up only seemed to enhance her classically beautiful features.
22  The bed seemed to occupy most of the room.
23  He seemed to be on the verge of total derangement.
24  The dancer's feet hardly seemed to touch the ground.
25  A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure will turn to glorious success.
26  His version of the accident seemed most convincing.
27  Her lawyer seemed very knowledgeable and experienced.
28  Both parties seemed to have a rather clinical view of the breakup of their marriage.
29  The loudspeaker seemed to distort his voice.
30  He seemed undecided whether to go or stay.