How to use resemblance in a sentence

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• The mitral valve was named for a fancied resemblance to a bishop's mitre.From the entry mitral
• The plant was named for its fancied resemblance to a Roman spear.From the entry fancied
• Notice the resemblance between the p-adic ordinal and the base-p logarithm.From the entry p-adic ordinal
• You have a remote resemblance to my grandmother.From the entry remote
• The pastoral scenes from those commercials don’t bear too much resemblance to the rote of daily life on a farm.From the entry rote
• He bore an uncanny resemblance to the dead sailor.From the entry uncanny
• Babir's life quickly began to bear a resemblance to that of an abscotchalater.2022 February 10, Dr. Kislay Panday, The Sovereign: Sprouts Of Good Governance, Prabhat Prakashan, →ISBN, page 252. From the entry abscotchalater
• Older, of course, and a lady, but I could immediately see the resemblance.2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN. From the entry sticky-out
• In Evelina, memory produces matriarchal resemblance; other Gothic novels artifactualize it in portraits.2012, Kamilla Elliott, Portraiture and British Gothic Fiction, page 134. From the entry artifactualize
• Can’t you see the resemblance?” The nurse slopped toward the exit.2012, James Gough, “Maggot Duty”, in Cloak, Salt Lake City, Ut.: WiDō Publishing, →ISBN, pages 246–247. From the entry candy-striper
• The cuffs, or epimanikia, which fit over the sticharion, bear little or no resemblance to the maniple.1998, Encyclopaedia Britannica CD 98 Multimedia Edition. From the entry epimanikion
• Alexander bore very little resemblance to the huge, not very agile kings of the wrestling mat.1972, Soviet Life, numbers 184-195, page 63. From the entry matman
• This had many resemblances to later Peking, but was more regular.1963, Trewin Copplestone, editor, World Architecture: An Illustrated History, Hamlyn, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 98. From the entry Pei-ching
• In this respect the decerebrate condition offers some resemblance to the cataleptic state.1908, C. S. Sherrington, “On plastic tonus and proprioceptive reflexes”, in Quarterly Journal of Experimental Physiology, page 117. From the entry decerebrate
• We followed a trail into the Flatirons, soaring triangular crags that were named for their resemblance to Victorian-era clothing irons.2016 August 31, Tony Perrottet, “In Boulder, Where Inner Peace Meets Outer Beauty”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York…. From the entry clothing iron
• He had a great heavy jaw and shoulders like an ox and bore no resemblance to Maurice Leonard.2014, Jessica Stirling, Shamrock Green. From the entry fright
• In d'Allemagne's vitriolic prose, Québec bears an incredible resemblance to Kenya, Rhodesia, and South Africa under white 'settlerist plunder and dispossession.2012, Pius Adesanmi, You're Not a Country, Africa, →ISBN. From the entry settlerist
• One man, well-fed and with glasses, was said to bear a strong resemblance to the county party chief, Wang Minsheng.2012 August 24, Edward Wong, “Orgy Photos Give More Than a Peek Into Chinese Officials’ Sex Lives”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry Lujiang
• Its resemblance to the Prothean data banks recovered on Mars provoked immediate interest from the Alliance and the Citadel Council.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Protheans: Beacon Codex entry. From the entry quantum leap
• By the end of the century, poleis had been established throughout the Hellenic world, all bearing a marked family resemblance.2006, Karen Armstrong, The Great Transformation, Atlantic Books 2007, page 161. From the entry polis
• As I gazed into her wonderful green eyes, I realized that there was a marked resemblance to those of Leonardo.2002, Eduard Prugovecki, Dawn of the New Man, page 76. From the entry biowoman
• Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences.1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN). From the entry arrest
• These two cases of witkop had a close resemblance to favus, but no evidence of fungus infection was found.1970, British Journal of Venereal Diseases - Volumes 46-47, page 217. From the entry witkop
• This particular shape gives them a peculiar resemblance to tiny ears from which the name “vushka” is derived.1957, Savella Stechishin, Traditional Ukrainian Cookery, Winnipeg: Trident Press, published 1980, page 210. From the entry vushka
• Their cultures however bespeak not only their past resemblances but also the identicalism of their present and future aspirations.1952, The China Monthly Review, volume 123, page 165. From the entry identicalism
• The resemblance is still further emphasized by the whiteness of the little face, its smoothness and the pinkness of the cheeks.1915 January 17, “Monkey Mother Love. Rouged and Pencilled Little Foster-Parent Fondles Affectionate Baby at Society Circus.”, in The Los…. From the entry monkeyess
• One of the most modified domesticates is the sheep, the various breeds of which bear little resemblance to its wild ancestor, the mouflon.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 237. From the entry mouflon
• In other words, fictionalized Arabiastan in desert romancelandia bears some resemblance both to contemporary Saudi Arabia and to a historical notion of the Arabian Peninsula.2015, Amira Jarmakani, An Imperialist Love Story: Desert Romances and the War on Terror, unnumbered page. From the entry Romancelandia
• These provisions have a strongly subscriptive and voluntaristic character, and bear a marked resemblance to rules used to regulate the membership of associations.2010, Kirsty Gover, Tribal Constitutionalism, page 45. From the entry subscriptive
• Called French parsley by Europeans, chervil is a symbol of new life for them, because of its resemblance to myrrh given to baby Jesus.[2006, Susheela Raghavan, Handbook of Spices, Seasonings, and Flavorings, 2nd edition, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 84. From the entry French parsley
• But on the day when I approached her regarding Nazli Akram-Hyder, any resemblance to the jolly old Mrs Claus was only superficial.2006, Nausheen Pasha-Zaidi, The Colour of Mehndi: A Novel, page 10. From the entry Mrs Claus
• The contrasting theory of polygenesis assumes that resemblances among tales can be attributed to independent invention in places unconnected by trade routes or travel.2003, Maria Tatar, The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 64. From the entry monogenesis
• The melon slice, cup, and handle of the pitcher comprise a triple-entendre on the pictorial resemblance between three very different kinds of volume.1993, Jeffrey S. Weiss, “Georges Braque”, in Great French Paintings from the Barnes Foundation: Impressionist, Post-impressionist, and…. From the entry triple-entendre
• There is also the resemblance between the Hindu game of pachesi and the Mexica patolli, so close as to be virtually identical.1992, Olive Patricia Dickason, Canada′s First Nations: A History of Founding Peoples from Earliest Times, page 61. From the entry patolli
• Finally, I would like to discuss the striking resemblance between the Turkish -mis forms in baby talk, and the Bulgarian perfectoid in adult-to-child communication.1989, European Journal for Semiotic Studies - Volume 1. From the entry perfectoid
• I find it interesting that these two earlier birds show great resemblance to your 18th century picture of the North American wild turkey.1983, Cynthia Mortimore, in a letter to (and published in) Country Life, volume 173, page 582. From the entry in pride
• It comes in the form of a mask, or a harmless owl, or a punning resemblance in the soft muzzle of a horseface.1971, ARTnews, page 28. From the entry horseface
• This characteristic structural resemblance and other shared properties of these viruses have caused certain virologists to propose the name coronavirus for this previously unrecognized group.[1969 November, Harold S. Kaye, Walter R. Dowdle, “Some Characteristics of Hemagglutination of Certain Strains of ‘IBV-Like’ Virus”, in…. From the entry coronavirus
• In one crosslight all this bears a strong resemblance to Animal Farm, where, though all animals were equal, some were more equal than others.1969, J.C. Furnas, The Americans: A Social History of the United States 1587-1914. From the entry crosslight

Meaning of resemblance

1. noun The quality or state of resembling.
2. noun That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.
3. noun A comparison; a simile.

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Questions about resemblance in a sentence

How do you use resemblance in a sentence?

Resemblance is used as a noun. For example: “The mitral valve was named for a fancied resemblance to a bishop's mitre.”

What is a short sentence with resemblance?

“Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences.”

What does resemblance mean?

Resemblance means the quality or state of resembling.