Word Finder - appear

definition

To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.

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To come before the public.

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A great writer appeared at that time.

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To stand in presence of some authority, tribunal, or superior person, to answer a charge, plead a cause, etc.; to present oneself as a party or advocate before a court, or as a person to be tried.

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To become visible to the apprehension of the mind; to be known as a subject of observation or comprehension, or as a thing proved; to be obvious or manifest.

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To seem; to have a certain semblance; to look.

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He appeared quite happy with the result.

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To bring into view.

You always appear when something bad is about to happen.

They didn't appear to be moving quickly.

He tried unsuccessfully to appear wounded.

The teen didn't appear happy.

The sun is alone, except in thick weather, when there sometimes appear to be two, but one is a mock sun.

Then the sun will appear in all his radiance and fill the world with light.

Thank God it didn't appear she had been contacted by her husband, but something was seri­ously wrong and Dean was smack-dab in the middle of it.

We knew you'd appear eventually.

Darkyn didn't appear to force her to return.

Brady still didn't appear.

More adjectives appear, including adjectives of colour.

He'd just appear whenever he felt like it.

Every day, letters of inquiry and notices from the court arrived, and on the first of May, Denisov was ordered to hand the squadron over to the next in seniority and appear before the staff of his division to explain his violence at the commissariat office.

She poured sand over the fire and waited long enough to make it appear she had given his invitation consideration.

Balashev, feeling it incumbent on him to reply, said that from the Russian side things did not appear in so gloomy a light.

Our columns ought to have begun to appear on an open declivity to his right.

She had to appear to be a normal human by being careful in everything she said and did.

If one accepts this twofold aim all Rostopchin's actions appear irreproachable.

Next morning, having taken leave of no one but the count, and not waiting for the ladies to appear, Prince Andrew set off for home.

Nicholas glanced at her and, wishing to appear not to notice her abstraction, made some remark to Mademoiselle Bourienne and then again looked at the princess.

Prince Andrew listened attentively to Bagration's colloquies with the commanding officers and the orders he gave them and, to his surprise, found that no orders were really given, but that Prince Bagration tried to make it appear that everything done by necessity, by accident, or by the will of subordinate commanders was done, if not by his direct command, at least in accord with his intentions.

Vegetarian and seafood choices also appear on the menu in addition to meat dishes.

Dean could see a spot of blood appear.

It didn't appear to be far, and it was hours before she'd be asleep on her side of the world.

She paused, afraid of where this doorway led, and steadied her breathing before stepping through, at once disoriented to appear in a small kindergarten class.

If we have a large range of examples, if our observation is constantly directed to seeking the correlation of cause and effect in people's actions, their actions appear to us more under compulsion and less free the more correctly we connect the effects with the causes.

It changes every day and while you never know what to expect, there are some rotating dishes that frequently appear.

Live entertainment is often scheduled to appear on the dining patio.

To such the State renders comparatively small service, and a slight tax is wont to appear exorbitant, particularly if they are obliged to earn it by special labor with their hands.

We ourselves will not delay to appear among our people in that Capital and in other parts of our realm for consultation, and for the direction of all our levies, both those now barring the enemy's path and those freshly formed to defeat him wherever he may appear.

She sauntered up the drive, trying to appear casual.

It does not appear Rudman is responsible for Amy Lou Lewis, who remains missing from her Cranston, Rhode Island home since last week.

Deidre bolted, silently willing a portal to appear as she sprinted into the fortress.

If she asked, a mirror would appear on the opposite wall.

Unlike an elevator, it didn't appear to move.

Failed to appear.

From Miss Sullivan's part of this report I give her most important comments and such biographical matter as does not appear elsewhere in the present volume.

From this it would appear that 43% of the to Wagner.

Throwing my voice into any object I pleased, to make it appear that the object was speaking instead of me.

All health and success does me good, however far off and withdrawn it may appear; all disease and failure helps to make me sad and does me evil, however much sympathy it may have with me or I with it.

The Skip of the Tip-Toe-Hop, a Romance of the Middle Ages, by the celebrated author of 'Tittle-Tol-Tan,' to appear in monthly parts; a great rush; don't all come together.

Many of our houses, both public and private, with their almost innumerable apartments, their huge halls and their cellars for the storage of wines and other munitions of peace, appear to be extravagantly large for their inhabitants.

In clear weather, in summer, they appear blue at a little distance, especially if agitated, and at a great distance all appear alike.

But if, using the shortest diameter of Loch Fyne, we apply these proportions to Walden, which, as we have seen, appears already in a vertical section only like a shallow plate, it will appear four times as shallow.

Natasha kept looking uneasily at everybody with wide-open eyes, as if wishing to intercept every glance directed toward her, and tried to appear the same as usual.

They all knew very well that the enchanting countess' illness arose from an inconvenience resulting from marrying two husbands at the same time, and that the Italian's cure consisted in removing such inconvenience; but in Anna Pavlovna's presence no one dared to think of this or even appear to know it.

She eased against him, awed by his pure strength yet determined not to appear as stupid as she felt.

Cynthia surmised that when they did appear, they were oversights on the part of the writer who unconsciously placed them as if she were writing in a normal, un-coded fashion.

He wasn't too full of himself, and he really did appear to love her.

The politician managed to make even his casual wear appear distinguished as he stood in the doorway with sparkling blue eyes.