verb
definition
To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as.
example
He seems to be ill. Her eyes seem blue. It seems like it is going to rain later. How did she seem to you?
definition
To befit; to beseem.
Examples of seem in a Sentence
You never seem to study.
You don't seem to be very happy.
For some reason that didn't seem likely.
Doesn't seem too great.
Christmas was only a few days away, and yet it didn't seem like Christmas.
They seem to think I betrayed them.
It didn't seem like Christmas.
You seem to enjoy your work - and you are respectful toward me.
But you did seem to enjoy it.
But after what you've been through, I guess it would seem like a picnic.
They seem to know man isn't a threat until the engine is shut off.
You two seem to get along well together.
A friend, certainly, but their relationship was also romantic so best friend didn't seem like a good description.
He didn't seem to be prompting her.
No, she wasn't sure, but that didn't seem to matter.
The people didn't seem to be aware of me.
He didn't seem to be bleeding from anywhere else, though she wasn't sure she hadn't damaged anything else by running him over.
Why do you seem so sad?
That is because they seem so far out of the daily experience of most people that they cannot conceive of how or why they would use them.
Being alone didn't seem so bad to me after all.
He was leaning down to meet her, but they couldn't seem to touch.
Even the IV didn't seem real.
Petya wiped his perspiring face with his hands and pulled up the damp collar which he had arranged so well at home to seem like a man's.
They did not seem frightened, but chirped softly, as if they knew they were safe.
When Theodosia had gone to sleep Princess Mary thought about this for a long time, and at last made up her mind that, strange as it might seem, she must go on a pilgrimage.
A commander-in-chief's business, it would seem, is simply to choose one of these projects.
To them the words of Miloradovich seem very interesting, and so do their surmises and the rewards this or that general received; but the question of those fifty thousand men who were left in hospitals and in graves does not even interest them, for it does not come within the range of their investigation.
With hundreds of restaurants at your fingertips in the big city, finding a place with great food, atmosphere and a moderate price tag can seem impossible.
And when I... hugged you... you didn't seem to mind at first.
You just seem to be troubled, lately.
So absorbed was he in tormenting her, that he didn't seem to notice.
They are there, it is true; but they seem mummified.
And compared to the duration of life it did not seem to him slower than an awakening from sleep compared to the duration of a dream.
Felipa didn't seem to notice anything unusual in his attitude, so maybe he had always treated them that way.
He didn't seem like the kind whose moods shifted like her father's.
The Adige, formed by the junction of two streams—the Etsch or Adige proper and the Eisak, both of which belong to Tirol rather than to Italy—descends as far as Verona, where it enters the great plain, with a course from north to south nearly parallel to the rivers last described, and would seem likely to discharge its waters into those of the Po, but below Legnago it turns eastward and runs parallel to the Po for about 40 m., entering the Adriatic by an independent mouth about 8 m.
Wheat and the date palm seem to have been indigenous, and the latter is still one of the chief poductions of the country, but in later years rice has taken the place of wheat as the staff of life.
Here Tancred, followed by Baldwin, turned into Cilicia, and began to take possession of the Cilician towns, and especially of Tarsus - thus beginning, it would seem, the creation of the Norman principality of Antioch.
That is to an eye at F', the planet would seem to move around the sky with a nearly uniform speed.
This scene, in one form or another, should seem familiar.
It will look at all this and a million other factors that would seem to be unrelated.
The handsome Vera smiled contemptuously but did not seem at all hurt.
But even as he spoke he began to doubt whether this was the corporal he knew or a stranger, so unlike himself did the corporal seem at that moment.
Will it seem odd if I ask?
More shrugging didn't seem to be enough.
He certainly didn't seem to have much control, as far as she could tell.
Doesn.t seem like it.s been that long since … She trailed off, pensive.
How can you still seem so negative when you.re surrounded by all this!
Evelyn had a way of ensuring things were done even if she didn't seem to have time to do them.
Her plan, while brilliant when plotted the past month, didn't seem quite so wonderful right now.