How to use "seemed" in a sentence

When I did this last night, the time seemed to pass more slowly

But Mr Tribble seemed worried.

But just when Honest Ivan seemed to be winning, Sue ran across the room and jumped onto the chess table!

And part of me seemed to die when I heard it

Then a statement, somewhat in detail, of a course to be pursued, seemed fitting and proper

He seemed about forty years old and he was very well dressed

He seemed very polite and he appeared to be quite a gentleman

I watched him for the rest of the evening and he seemed to be a good man

He talked politely to everybody and everybody seemed to like him

He, too, seemed very upset by his memories.

He walked very unsteadily and he seemed drunk.

Everything seemed quiet

Mary's friend, a laundress named Maria Harvey, was there and said that Mary and Barnett seemed to be friendly

By 11 o'clock that morning, one reporter wrote, it seemed that the whole of the East End was 'out of doors'

Valjean seemed not to hear him

'My hair will grow again,' she thought, 'but teeth would be gone forever.' But then she thought about her daughter, and her own appearance suddenly seemed unimportant

Although he had only seen the beggar's face for a second, it had seemed strangely familiar.

It seemed empty, although he could not see into the shadows behind the trees

Walking more slowly now, thinking he was safe from his pursuers, Valjean followed the alley until he came to a lane that seemed to lead away from the city

They seemed to be father and daughter.

But, although he was very interested in them, they seemed not to notice him at all

She seemed to fill the far end of the Gardens with a kind of blue mist

But it seemed that M

However, there was something strange about them: although they all seemed to be written by different people, they were written on the same rough paper in the same handwriting

When Marius had recovered some of his senses, he saw that she seemed a little paler than before

Leblanc signed his name Urbain Fabre, which seemed to satisfy Thenardier, and wrote an address on the envelope

Thenardier seemed lost in his own dark thoughts

She stared at Marius with a look of pleasure on her pale face, and for some moments seemed unable to speak.

Marius's heart seemed to miss a beat

For a moment all the blood seemed to leave M

Just as Marius thought that her sad soul had finally left her body, she slowly opened her eyes, and said in a voice so sweet that it seemed already to come from another world, 'You know, M

There seemed to be no escape

They seemed to be listening for something, waiting for someone to move

He could not believe that this was the same man he had seen at the barricade all those months ago - it seemed like a bad dream to him.

Sunlight shone through the trees above, and soft golden sand seemed to lie at their feet

Cham seemed to hesitate.

Her mind seemed far away

Such adventures had been normal then, but they seemed almost magical now.

Many seemed to see it as a serious choice.

But whenever she thought about lying in a pod for months, her stomach seemed to turn over and over - in spite of what she'd told Cham.

Time seemed to stop

This was such an intelligent, sensitive creature, who seemed to know exactly who she was.

He looked out over the city and seemed to be thinking deeply

The journey across the city seemed to take forever; but when she arrived, Cham was waiting, hands in pockets

Cham's parents asked a lot of questions, and Leti seemed to have an answer for everything

Here, the tower blocks seemed taller and more depressing than ever, built closely together so that the spaces between them were always in shadow

But now it seemed an obvious place for the government to bug.

The building seemed bigger than ever; the hologram wall seemed brighter

His eyes were harder, and his smile seemed false

Worse than that, he seemed different

His character seemed different

None of them seemed at all alarmed or worried about Cham.

But to Sala, his voice seemed high and feverish

Cham followed, but his steps seemed heavy and slow

He laughed and smiled and seemed happy to see them all; but to Sala, he was different

He seemed like the old Cham: thoughtful, kind

Their hopes and dreams seemed to be in ruins

Some of them looked a little stiff and strange, maybe; but most of them seemed perfectly normal

And the way they were smiling, none of the other parents seemed to suspect that anything was wrong.

Sala forced her mind to go still; the voices seemed to come from far away

Those years seemed to stretch between us

The hall seemed very big, and my footsteps sounded very loud on the stone floor.

Everyone laughed, but they seemed friendly

Even the sea seemed far away.

Maxim seemed all right again now, happy and cheerful

The house seemed very quiet as I began to walk up the stairs

The afternoon seemed very long

'But you always seemed so unhappy and so shy.'

How far away that seemed! I felt calmer, much older now

It seemed so long since I had used it

The drive through the centre of London seemed very long

Now, as she watched this boy, his resemblance to Danny seemed to be more than mere coincidence

Why not? The more that she considered it, the less crazy it seemed

At first, it had seemed terribly wrong that such a wonderful opportunity should come her way before she'd even had time to mourn her boy, as if the Fates were so shallow and insensitive as to think that they could balance the scales and offset Danny's death merely by presenting her with a chance at her dream job

She almost would have preferred to discover someone lurking in the kitchen or crouching in a closet rather than be forced to look, at last, in that final space where sadness seemed to dwell like a tenant

Her inability to clean out his room suddenly frightened her; for the first time it seemed like more than just a weakness of spirit but an indication of serious mental illness

As always, he seemed to be high on something, bursting with energy

Now they seemed to have shaped a hit show together.

It seemed to be coming from every corner of the house.

An ominous pressure seemed to compress the air around her.

When the stage lights were periodically dimmed, a score of revolving crystal ballroom chandeliers cast swirling splinters of color that seemed to coalesce into supernatural forms that capered under the proscenium arch

Several times, she encountered Elliot Stryker, and he seemed genuinely interested in learning how the splashy stage effects had been achieved

For almost five minutes, the room seemed to have come alive.

Instead, his smile broadened, and there seemed to be genuine delight in his eyes.

The huge room was so noisy that the blend of sounds seemed to coalesce into a visible substance - like a humid yellow haze in the air

And everyone seemed to be talking at once.

He truly seemed unaware of what had happened at the house

"Who would want to scare you?" He seemed genuinely concerned.

Yet the taunting words on the chalkboard and the destruction in the bedroom seemed to be the work of someone who felt that she should be held accountable for the accident

Her heart seemed to be pumping a refrigerant instead of blood, and an iciness radiated from it.

She thought of the man in her nightmare, the man in black whose face had been lumpy with maggots, and the shadows in the corner of her office seemed darker and deeper than they had been a moment ago.

It hadn't seemed important at the time.

She took hold of the two lines - one heavy cable and one ordinary insulated wire - and they seemed to come alive in her hands, like a pair of snakes, resisting her

She searched his face for any sign that he was lying, but his bewilderment seemed genuine

He seemed to know that she had to go through the whole story to get it off her mind.

His beautiful, expressive eyes seemed to be filled with concern for her.

The next day she seemed to have a touch of flu, and the third day she was dead

All the talk about death and fear and madness and pain seemed to have taken place further back in the past than a mere few seconds ago

He enjoyed discussing antiques and paintings with her, and an hour passed in what seemed to be only ten minutes.

Suddenly it seemed to her that she had done a mad, stupid thing when she'd hidden away like a nun for two years

For a long, long time, they forgot that death existed, and they explored the delicious, silken surfaces of love, and it seemed to them, in those shining hours, that they would both live forever.

On hot summer days, these barren, sandy slopes seemed godforsaken, and they would not be made lush and green for another ten years at least

Elliot didn't tell the judge about the malicious prankster, for that seemed like an unnecessary complication; he still believed that once the fact of Danny's death was established by the exhumation, the quickest and surest way of dealing with the harassment was to hire a first-rate firm of private investigators to track down the perpetrator

Initially his growing fascination with the macabre had not seemed entirely healthy to her, but she had never denied him the freedom to pursue it

The burning, scarlet eyes of the monstrous figure in the drawing seemed to follow her.

That seemed to be the only logical explanation.

That seemed indisputable.

The flagstone walk that led across her front lawn seemed to be one of those treadmill pathways in a dream, stretching out farther in front of her the harder that she ran, but at last, she reached the end of it and dashed into the street

Stupefied by the unexpected violence, by the loss of her house, and by her close brush with death, she had seemed to be in a trance; now she had snapped out of it

Tom Polumby didn't appear to be worried by their presence in his garage; he seemed merely perplexed

And he seemed genuinely astonished by Danny's streak of luck

He seemed to find this new statement more outrageous than what she'd said before

No one in the jolly group seemed to realize that he was obstructing the main aisle

But on the other hand, she was working through Stryker to have her son's grave reopened, which seemed to indicate that she knew something.

"Every time it's happened, it's never seemed to bother him," Dombey said.

The crunching and squeaking of the snow under their feet seemed horrendously loud to him, though they actually were making little noise

It seemed more like a hundred miles

But it had seemed absurd and shortsighted of the director to force a man of Alexander's position to travel by such relatively primitive means

She felt a peculiar pulling sensation that seemed to come from within her hand, and she stiffened in surprise.

Billy Sandstone was in his late thirties, as small and lean as a jockey, and his watchword seemed to be "neatness." His shoes shone like black mirrors

The joke seemed to relax Sandstone, as Elliot had hoped it would

If the rescue attempt went smoothly, as Tina's dream seemed to predict, they wouldn't have any need for much of what they bought

Alexander was enraged by the cool methodicalness that the purchase of the maps seemed to represent

Where were they getting their strength, their nerve, their endurance? It seemed as if they must have some advantage of which Alexander was not aware

Danny seemed able to work miracles with inanimate objects, but he could not control people, like the guard upstairs, whom Elliot had been forced to shoot

He seemed to be utterly vicious and capable of anything.

Putting one hand on the boy's back to press him against her, she discovered how shockingly spindly he was each rib and vertebra so prominent that she seemed to be holding a skeleton

Occasionally wind found the aircraft and pummeled it, but the chopper bobbed and weaved like a good boxer, and it no longer seemed in danger of being dealt a knockout punch.

The other three quarters of the time was spent - so it seemed to me - in a competition to come up with idiotic plot or character changes with the intention of seeing who could plunge me into the longest spell of speechlessness

The Eyes of Darkness was assigned to a writing team, two quite personable women who seemed bright and enthusiastic

He at least seemed to understand what I said, and told me he would pick me up and take me to my brother's house.

But this seemed to be just another proof of her madness.

She rarely answered questions and spent a lot of her time sewing, hut her favourite activity seemed to be catching flies, which she always released unharmed after examining them carefully.

Henri had just proved that Charas seemed to be getting close to some kind of clue in this business with the flies.

She had seemed perfectly sane then.

She had been very willing to speak about her life with my brother - which seemed a happy and ordinary one - up to the time he died

She opened her mouth, but said nothing; only her eyes seemed to be screaming with fear.

That month of waiting seemed like a year

'She seemed to enjoy the experience,' Andre said.

After what seemed a very long wait, but was probably only a minute or two, I saw a bright light through my fingers.

Andre, poor Andre, had gone long ago, it seemed

The great metal hammer seemed to drop slowly

'Not Lettice.' Miss Marple seemed thoughtful

It seemed odd for such a cultured woman to be living in a small country village.

The menu was expensive, but Mary seemed to have enjoyed undercooking and overcooking everything

Lawrence seemed surprised

'The clock?' Redding seemed confused.

'They seemed very happy.'

And it really seemed that he must be right.

'He asked me if I wanted to find my husband's murderer, and I said, "Yes." And then he asked me whether I suspected anyone, and I said, "No." And then he said, did I think the person who committed the crime knew the village, and I said they certainly seemed to

'Oh, yes!' She seemed suddenly confident again

So it seemed that the two must be connected.'

The world seemed so safe and peaceful.

It seemed to him that it fell to Earth about a hundred kilometres east of him.

Everyone seemed greatly excited

I had the sunset in my eyes and for a moment the round hole seemed black.

He got his shoulder and knee up, but again he seemed to slip back until only his head was visible

The crowd around the pit seemed to grow as new people arrived

The smoke (or flame, perhaps, would be a better word for it) was so bright that the deep blue sky overhead seemed to darken as these clouds rose

Slowly a dark shape rose out of the pit and a beam of light seemed to flash out from it.

The silent common, my escape, the flames, seemed like a dream

My body seemed to have lost its strength

The sun, shining through the smoke that rose up from the tops of the trees, seemed blood-red and threw an unfamiliar bright light on everything.

My wife was strangely silent during the drive, and seemed very worried

Then suddenly, the trees in the wood ahead of me were pushed to the side and a second enormous tripod appeared, rushing, as it seemed, straight towards me

It seemed that his neck had been broken

They seemed very busy

All the houses seemed empty

It seemed like any other Sunday - except for the empty houses, and the other ones where people were packing.

At the sight of these strange, quick and terrible creatures, the crowd near the water's edge seemed for a moment to be totally shocked

It was clear to me that the great tragedy in which he was involved - it seemed that he had escaped from Weybridge - had driven him to the edge of madness.

The sound of guns continued from time to time and after midnight there seemed to be lightning in the south.

It seemed that one of its three legs had been broken

After this it seemed that the three Martians spoke together, and those who were watching them report that they stayed absolutely quiet for the next half-hour

It seemed that she had had a gun all the time, but it had been under her seat when they were attacked

It seemed that the whole population of London was moving north

It one had flown over London that morning, every road to the north or east would have seemed black with moving refugees, everyone a frightened and exhausted human being.

They seemed in no hurry, and did not go beyond the central part of London all that day

a movement of feet and a cheer that seemed to be answered.

It seemed to him that they were surprised by this new enemy

To the watchers on the steamboat, low in the water and with the sun in their eyes, it seemed that the warship was already among the Martians.

As I watched the Martians, they seemed to be trying to raise themselves on the hands, but with their increased weight on Earth this was impossible

They did not sleep, and because they had very simple bodies they never seemed to get tired

It whistled as it worked, and no Martian seemed to be controlling it.

After my time in the darkness, the day seemed very bright, the sky was shining blue

The Martians, it seemed, had killed and eaten everyone around there, except for a few lucky ones like myself

It was interesting that he, an ordinary soldier, seemed to have a much better understanding of the situation than I, a professional writer.

There, it seemed to me, I had the best chance of learning what the Martians and human beings were doing for death

She seemed asleep, but she was dead.

When I passed streets that ran to the north it grew louder, and then houses and buildings seemed to cut it off again

It seemed that all the empty houses had found a voice for their fear and loneliness.

'Ulla, ulla, ulla,' cried the voice, coming, it seemed to me, from the district around Regent's Park

It seemed that it had been driven blindly straight at the house, and had been turned over when the house fell on it.

All the ships in the world seemed to be coming to London in those days

He had swept it all away for no reason at all, it seemed.

All that time I felt a growing need to look again at whatever remained of the little life that had seemed so happy and bright in my past

I remember how bright that day seemed as I went sadly back to the little house in Woking - how busy the streets were, and how full of life

The tin looked at us and seemed to be laughing

The river seemed magic

He seemed insulted by Harris's offer

She was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen, and yet there seemed to be something missing - I did not know what.

They all seemed sad

Miss Fairlie seemed to be uncomfortable in his company and left us soon after dinner

This explanation seemed satisfactory to me, but Miss Halcombe still looked concerned.

Suddenly she seemed the stronger sister: she would not change her mind

When we got there, she suddenly seemed frightened