How to Use seem in a Sentence

seem

verb
  • What they're doing doesn't seem right to me.
  • I tried to cheer them up because they seemed depressed.
  • That doesn’t seem like the best formula for the A’s to thrive in the desert.
    — Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 July 2022
  • Worst of all, walking through the park to sit in the pub doesn’t seem right.
    — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 19 July 2022
  • Kinne said one-on-one matchups on the perimeter seem to be a thing of the past.
    — Greg Luca, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Like many things in My New Friends, this seems like a stretch.
    — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2024
  • The Bosa brothers seem to be ships passing in the night.
    — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Bert is a little gray on the chin but doesn't seem to feel it at all!
    — The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 27 Oct. 2024
  • Melanie Lynskey’s case might seem like an odd one at first.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2022
  • There doesn’t seem to be much more to it than water ice.
    — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 8 Dec. 2022
  • No one seems to care that this happened, from the guests to the staff to the local police.
    — Jodi Guglielmi, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2025
  • And, that kind of seemed like an appropriate name for the brand and the event.
    — Lynnette Nicholas, Essence, 13 May 2025
  • As a young man in his 20s, Dwayne Debnam seemed to have his life lined up.
    — Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 6 June 2025
  • High school seemed as good a time as any to start investing in the cause.
    — Charlotte Collins, Architectural Digest, 11 Sep. 2024
  • This might seem small, but in just five years, the outage time has doubled in the US.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 1 July 2024
  • The news seemed to have sent a chill through the niche community.
    — Nick Stoico, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2023
  • The crickets in the rest of the stadium don’t seem to matter to the bottom line.
    — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 July 2022
  • The percentage of claims that are low risk seems to be growing by the day.
    — Tom Cullinan, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
  • The chances of one of them opening the season on the two-deep at Sam or Jack linebacker seem high.
    — oregonlive, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Trading Mitchell to the Knicks would seem to make sense, but Ainge wants a haul in return.
    — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2022
  • Thinking about work off the clock seemed to spread stress from humans to pets.
    — Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 25 May 2025
  • The result is that the company can’t seem to hire fast enough.
    — Sydney Ember, New York Times, 2 June 2023
  • The school would seem to be in a strong position to resist them.
    — Daniel Golden, ProPublica, 4 July 2022
  • Yes, the >$100 price point might seem a lot for an unassuming slide.
    — Samson McDougall, Verywell Health, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Investors can't seem to make up their minds about the CPI data.
    — Hannah Miao, WSJ, 14 Feb. 2023
  • There don’t seem to be any answers for what ails the offense around Rodgers.
    — Mark Maske, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Oct. 2022
  • And these days there seem to be no rules at all, which hurts my head, not to mention my heart.
    — Ellyn Laub, Sun Sentinel, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Maybe this qualifies as the trap line among the four play-in games, but this seems far too high.
    — Nick Hennion, Chicago Tribune, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Clarkson is a good start, but another piece or two seems likely to be added.
    — Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 July 2025
  • In a document prepared before the meeting, city staff proposed that the naming request be honored for at least a decade, but Johnson told the council this seemed like a rather short period.
    — Barbara Henry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 June 2025

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