SEMBLANCE in a Sentence

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For SEMBLANCE, below is one of 22 sentences:
Now that they had a little food, everyone at Tara was busy trying to restore some semblance of naturalness to life.

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 Meanings and Examples of SEMBLANCE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
semblance
 a.  seeming; appearance; show; figure; form
Classic Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  Ashley Wilkes was elected captain, because he was the best rider in the County and because his cool head was counted on to keep some semblance of order.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  When Gerald first moved to north Georgia, there had been no Atlanta at all, not even the semblance of a village, and wilderness rolled over the site.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
3  As he moved slowly to the side of the wagon, there was a ghostly semblance of the old host of Tara welcoming guests, as if Gerald spoke words from out of shadowy memory.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
4  Now that they had a little food, everyone at Tara was busy trying to restore some semblance of naturalness to life.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
5  There was a semblance of order in the front of the store, where tall shelves rose into the gloom stacked with bright bolts of cloth, china, cooking utensils and notions.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
6  But the peace he gained was hollow, only an outward semblance, for he had purchased it at the cost of everything he held to be right in married life.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
7  But even to her own conscience she must trump up a semblance of defence.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
8  Lily shook her head with a charming semblance of regret.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
9  His face turned to a semblance of gray paste.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
10  Be sure to provide yourself with some previous engagement which shall have a semblance of probability, and communicate the fact to me by a line in writing.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 54. A Flurry in Stocks.
11  The mourning in her heart forbade her assuming this simple ornament, though she had not yet had time to put on the outward semblance of woe.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 72. Madame de Saint-Meran.
12  I have observed that when I wore the semblance of Edward Hyde, none could come near to me at first without a visible misgiving of the flesh.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
13  They had long since dropped to pieces, and every semblance of print had left them.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VIII
14  This graceful semblance of luxury was a kind of child's play, which was full of charm in that gentle and severe household, which raised poverty into dignity.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
15  The convict is no longer, so to speak, in the semblance of the living.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN
Example Sentence:
1  The city has now returned to some semblance of normality after last night's celebrations.
2  The film lacks any semblance of realism.
3  She was trying to get her thoughts back into some semblance of order.
4  Foolish men mistake transitory semblance for eternal fact.