RESEMBLE in a Sentence

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Like all children, who resemble young shoots of the vine, which cling to everything, she had tried to love; she had not succeeded.

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 Meanings and Examples of RESEMBLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
resemble
 v.  be similar to; take after; look like
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The colours are too dark, the figures are not sufficiently rounded, nor in good relief; the draperies in no way resemble stuffs.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXV
2  Before him was one of those low hills covered with close-cut stubble, which, after the harvest, resemble shaved heads.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
3  The slab has here been replaced by a cross-beam, against which lean five or six shapeless fragments of knotty and petrified wood which resemble huge bones.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
4  The pilasters are surmounted by globes which resemble cannon-balls of stone.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
5  His sliding motion, his attitudes, his mysterious and rapid gestures, caused him to resemble those twilight larvae which haunt ruins, and which ancient Norman legends call the Alleurs.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT
6  Like all children, who resemble young shoots of the vine, which cling to everything, she had tried to love; she had not succeeded.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUN...
7  It is one of the faults which resemble a duty.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ...
8  The "noble" salons of the present day no longer resemble those salons.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT
9  There results from such concentration a passivity, which, if it were the outcome of reasoning, would resemble philosophy.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—M. MABEUF
10  Our chimeras are the things which the most resemble us.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY
11  Royal houses resemble those Indian fig-trees, each branch of which, bending over to the earth, takes root and becomes a fig-tree itself.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—BADLY SEWED
12  In such cases, all women resemble Mahomet.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE BATTLE BEGUN
13  Certain slang phrases which participate in the two epochs and have at once the barbaric character and the metaphorical character resemble phantasmagories.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—ROOTS
14  From the Boulevard Bourdon to the bridge of Austerlitz one of those clamors which resemble billows stirred the multitude.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER III—A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN
15  A stir began distinctly in the Saint-Leu quarter, but it did not resemble the movement of the first attack.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED
Example Sentence:
1  That franchise was told that the blue was chosen to echo the sky, and the building is more orange and red to resemble the surrounding terrain.
2  They overlook two gun mounts that resemble cannon barrels; the Zumwalt's powerful new gun system can unload 600 rocket-powered projectiles on targets more than 70 miles away.
3  John does not at all resemble his father, and I am glad of it: John is like me and like my brothers--he is quite a Gibson.
4  It's amazing how closely Brian and Steve resemble each other.
5  She resembles her brother in looks.
6  He resembles his father very closely.
7  The twins resembled one another closely; only minute differences set them apart.
8  There was a distant resemblance between them.
9  Kehr bears a strong facial resemblance to her sister.
10  The plot of the movie bears more than a passing resemblance to Jane Austen's "Emma".
11  The resemblance between Susan and her sister was remarkable.
12  She bears a striking resemblance to her older sister.
13  The resemblance is undeniable, from the massive arch to the carved pillars.
14  We are tolerably conversant with the early English poets; and can discover no resemblance whatever, except in antiquated spelling and a few obsolete words.
15  She brought the child to the house to play with half-brothers and half-sisters, all of them unaware they were related, until the resemblance became too obvious.