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How to use seemingly in a sentence

40 example sentences · adverb

Seemingly means as it appears; apparently. Example: “A series of seemingly inconsequential events led cumulatively to the fall of the company.”

Examples of seemingly by meaning

adverbAs it appears; apparently.

  • He sacrificed nothing, laboring to get even the most seemingly insignificant element of every record perfect.2006, Ace Collins, More Stories Behind the Best-Loved Songs of Christmas, page 64
  • With rain lashing across the ground at kick-off and every man in Auckland seemingly either English-born or supporting Scotland, Eden Park was transformed into Murrayfield in March.2011 October 1, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 24 Mar 2023

More sentences with seemingly

  • A series of seemingly inconsequential events led cumulatively to the fall of the company.From the entry series
  • The visitors were hovering at the door, seemingly unwilling to enter.From the entry hover
  • His seemingly racist remarks will weigh against him in the forthcoming election.From the entry weigh against
  • We were hermetically sealing ourselves within the seemingly safe cocoon of groupthink.From the entry hermetically seal
  • My grandfather seemingly never exhausts his supply of bad jokes.From the entry exhaust
  • Amid the seemingly endless destruction, a single flower bloomed.From the entry destruction
  • The canvas was covered by seemingly careless splats of paint.From the entry splat
  • The list of his idiocies is seemingly interminable.From the entry idiocy
  • The cat was out of doors, seemingly enjoying the sun.From the entry out of doors
  • Patches of cropped land and uncropped land were interspersed seemingly at random, but the explanation turned out to be related to crop rotation and irrigation choices.From the entry cropped
  • Seemingly every brand and country of manufacture uses a different system.2026 August, Shea Alexander, “Basic Relief Carving Techniques”, in Popular Woodworking, volume 290, number 4, page 27. From the entry universal
  • Ramaphosa entered the meeting seemingly optimistic about maintaining a cordial conversation with Mr.2025 May 21, Erica L. Green, Zolan Kanno-Youngs, “Trump Lectures South African President in Televised Oval Office Confrontation”, in The…. From the entry olive branch
  • We have the Ukrainians also operating here, and they seemingly have advanced, or they obviously have advanced.2025 September 6th, Torsten Heinrich, “New Mig-29 for Ukraine! Germany to Train and Equip 4 Mech. Brigades!”, in Military & History, via…. From the entry Sukhetske
  • Let's begin with the pantomime villain that everyone seemingly loves to hate, Elon Musk.2023 April 12, “Good and Bad PR: Pantomime villain Musk does good! Unilever, not so much...”, in PR Moment. From the entry pantomime villain
  • We are all fed up with the seemingly endless rounds of industrial action on our railways.2022 December 28, Sir Michael Holden, “Comment: A war of attrition”, in RAIL, number 973, page 3. From the entry fed up
  • Seemingly out of nowhere, BeReal has made its way to college campuses.2022 April 6, Carson Lott, “New social media app asks users to ‘BeReal’”, in The Crimson White, archived from the original on 30 Sep 2023. From the entry BeReal
  • The smell of pumpkin-spice lattes in seemingly every other person’s hands?2022 October 1, Brent Hallenbeck, “Consider these arts and entertainment events happening in October”, in Burlington Free Press, page 6A. From the entry pumpkin-spice latte
  • Everything is seemingly image-worthy and selfie-ready, and therefore Instagrammable, Snapchattable, Facebookable, etc.2020, Stephanie Malia Hom, “The city of light in the city of signs: virtuality and tourism at Paris, Las Vegas”, in Maria Gravari-Barbas…. From the entry Facebookable
  • Using a genotype-driven approach, we identified a disorder that connects seemingly unrelated adult-onset inflammatory syndromes.2020 October 27, David B. Beck, Marcela A. Ferrada, Keith A. Sikora, Amanda K. Ombrello, et alia, “Somatic Mutations in UBA1 and Severe…. From the entry VEXAS
  • People on the internet seemingly can’t get enough of the whole thing.2018 November 29, Lisa Respers France, “Mariah Carey’s legendary Jennifer Lopez shade was her ‘trying to be nice’”, in CNN. From the entry shady
  • An unaspected planet bides its time and then emerges, often explosively and seemingly out of character.2018, Judy Hall, The Astrology Bible. From the entry loner
  • Fortunately, Frank had devised a cool way of getting down the seemingly endless staircase.2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN. From the entry laundry basket
  • The legislative arm of the Government of Guyana has seemingly been taken over by Kangalangs.2017 December 16, Ken Danns, “Kangalangs in Parliament”, in Sunday Chronicle, number 105129, Georgetown, Guyana: Guyana National…. From the entry kangalang
  • With something rank and squalid and seemingly spent with the character of death.2016, Paul Quintanilla, Master Tom. From the entry sallow
  • Further explanation may exist for the seemingly disposable nature of neuronal Dst in OLs.2016 February 18, “Cytoskeletal Linker Protein Dystonin Is Not Critical to Terminal Oligodendrocyte Differentiation or CNS Myelination”…. From the entry spectraplakin
  • Will the seemingly insatiable demand for the product ever level out?2016 October 24, Owen Gibson, “Is the unthinkable happening – are people finally switching the football off”, in The Guardian, London. From the entry level out
  • Even at more seemingly conventional Hot 50 establishments, tongue-in-chic ingredients are becoming de rigueur.2015 August 21, Necia Wilden, “Hot 50 list of Australia's best restaurants revealed”, in The Australian. From the entry tongue-in-chic
  • Why is the order of graphical characters in the PETSCII table so seemingly haphazard?2014, Nick Montfort et al., 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 225. From the entry pet
  • The passage stresses his success, ubiquity, and seemingly effortless ability to negotiate a number of cultural terrains.2014, Josephine Metcalf, Will Turner, “Introduction: “It’s got to feel real but not be real” (Ice-T)”, in Rapper, Writer, Pop-Cultural…. From the entry pop-cultural
  • I suddenly realised that my seemingly ordinary family had experienced every lifely situation imaginable!2013, Davina Worton, Someday. From the entry lifely
  • In developed countries cheap foreign imports seemingly turned domestic workers out of doors.2013, Larry Allen, “Overview”, in The Global Economic Crisis: A Chronology, London: Reaktion Books, →ISBN, pages 9–10. From the entry rain fire and brimstone
  • Thus the rise of a seemingly incongruous pairing: steampunk rap, or chap-hop.2013, Julie Anne Taddeo, Cynthia J. Miller, Steaming into a Victorian Future, page 90. From the entry chap-hop
  • Is the person acting in a strange manner, behaving illogically and seemingly out of touch with reality?2012, René F. W. Diekstra, Keith E. Hawton, Suicide in Adolescence, page 178. From the entry illogically
  • Hoffman or the seemingly random collection of people he allows to spout off on camera.2012 August 16, Neil Genzlinger, “Analyzing History Before the Dust Settles”, in The New York Times. From the entry get-off-my-lawn
  • This unusual metamagic causes a spell to seemingly do nothing when cast.2012, Vincent Venturella, The Legacy of Heroes: A Fantasy Role-Playing Game Player's Guide, →ISBN, page 206. From the entry metamagic
  • Well, one day when she got tired of my seemingly spaced-out replies she let me have it.2009, Elizabeth Marie Galloway-Evans, Embracing the Gift of Parenthood, page 85. From the entry oh really
  • For now, though, Paramore gets by on good cheer, even during seemingly uncheerful songs.2007 November 30, “Familiar With Emo, Intimate With Upbeat”, in New York Times. From the entry uncheerful
  • The seemingly intractable problematic of essentialism versus antiessentialism and primordialism versus circumstantialism endemic to identity analysis today.2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 141. From the entry problematic

Meaning of seemingly

  1. adverb As it appears; apparently.
  2. adverb In a seemly manner; decorously; with propriety.

Full definition of seemingly

Questions about seemingly in a sentence

How do you use seemingly in a sentence?
Seemingly is used as an adverb. For example: “A series of seemingly inconsequential events led cumulatively to the fall of the company.”
What is a short sentence with seemingly?
“The list of his idiocies is seemingly interminable.”
What does seemingly mean?
Seemingly means as it appears; apparently.

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