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How to use semblance in a sentence

14 example sentences · noun

Semblance means the outward appearance or form of a person or thing. Example: “He seems like to run from any semblance of hard work.”

More sentences with semblance

  • He seems like to run from any semblance of hard work.From the entry like
  • I won't countenance other than compunctious semblances for such a grievous blunder.From the entry countenance
  • The bundle of rags with the semblance of a face had not been identified.1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 294. From the entry soldier-girl
  • 'We'll all be dancing to a different tune before long.' Killian somehow managed to produce the semblance of a smile.2012, E.V. Thompson, Dream Traders, →ISBN. From the entry dance to a different tune
  • Tyson’s advisers hope will reintroduce him to the public and propel him to some semblance of a postboxing career.2008 May 11, Tim Arango, “Mike Tyson Film Takes a Swing at His Old Image”, in New York Times. From the entry postboxing
  • No longer was there semblance of organization.1927, Edgar Rice Burrows, The Outlaw of Torn, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2008. From the entry bemingle
  • No man could carve out leafage and beasts fairlier than Lavrans, but with men’s semblances he had never been over happy.1927, Sigrid Undset, translated by Charles Archer, “Debtors”, in The Cross, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap, Publishers, by arrangement…. From the entry fairlier
  • He pelted straight on in his socks, beplastered with filth out of all semblance to a human being.1900, Joseph Conrad, chapter 25, in Lord Jim, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood, page 273. From the entry beplaster
  • My high-masking autistic personality, having achieved a semblance of “normalcy” by listening carefully to every word and every nuance, caught the hidden subtext.2024, Tom Equels, The Horseman's Tale, unnumbered page. From the entry high-masking
  • He became so studious that he gave up any semblance of a social life, and had taken up the use of strong alcohol and Valium.1986, Craig G. Harris, “Weekend Plans”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 137. From the entry take up
  • Perrin Ferris succeeds in his equally demanding task of maintaining some semblance of presence while sharing the stage with a chronic upstager.1976 February 14, Don Shewey, “Haunted Host (review)”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 33, page 14. From the entry presence
  • Presently the man took a reed pen from his satchel, and trimmed it with a little ivory knife, carved in the semblance of a fish.1906, Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill. From the entry penknife
  • It's an approach that I can get behind on paper; it's almost impossible to experience much semblance of horror when you're piloting a superhuman wielding an RPG.2026 February 25, Nat Smith, “Resident Evil Requiem review - survival horror's greatest hits album”, in PCGamesN, Bath, Somerset…. From the entry powercreep
  • Skyrocketing demand could encourage a surge in fishing, which in turn could help restore some semblance of ecological balance in rivers up and down the Mississippi watershed.2022 June 22, Patti Wetli, “Introducing Copi, the Fish Formerly Known as Asian Carp”, in WTTW. From the entry copi

Meaning of semblance

  1. noun The outward appearance or form of a person or thing.
  2. noun Followed by of: the outward appearance of a person or thing when regarded as similar to that of another person or thing.
  3. noun Followed by of: the outward appearance of a person or thing which is different from what the person or thing actually is; also, an outward appearance of a thing which does not actually exist.

Full definition of semblance

Questions about semblance in a sentence

How do you use semblance in a sentence?
Semblance is used as a noun. For example: “He seems like to run from any semblance of hard work.”
What is a short sentence with semblance?
“No longer was there semblance of organization.”
What does semblance mean?
Semblance means the outward appearance or form of a person or thing.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: semblance (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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