Sentence Examples

1. His head was misshapen to resemble more of a dog than a human.
2. Made of the same stone as the counter, it was sunk into the floor to resemble a natural pool.
3. I assured him how extremely desirous I was that he should be satisfied on every point but I doubted much, whether it would be possible for me to explain myself on several subjects whereof his honor could have no conception because I saw nothing in his country to which I could resemble them.
4. The ladies and courtiers were all most magnificently clad, so that the spot they stood upon seemed to resemble a petticoat spread on the ground, embroidered with figures of gold and silver.
5. It looked like someone had laid a suit of mottled grey armor into the chair and arranged it to resemble a person sitting in it.
6. Some of her favorite things are puzzles, podcasts, and small dogs that resemble Ewoks.
7. A gallant knight shows to advantage bringing his lance to bear adroitly upon a fierce bull under the eyes of his sovereign, in the midst of a spacious plaza a knight shows to advantage arrayed in glittering armour, pacing the lists before the ladies in some joyous tournament, and all those knights show to advantage that entertain, divert, and, if we may say so, honour the courts of their princes by warlike exercises, or what resemble them but to greater advantage than all these does a knight-errant show when he traverses deserts, solitudes, cross-roads, forests, and mountains, in quest of perilous adventures, bent on bringing them to a happy and successful issue, all to win a glorious and lasting renown.
8. The thunder in my head was starting to resemble a rock concert.
9. Having thus answered the only objection that can ever be raised against me as a traveler, I here take a final leave of all my courteous readers, and return to enjoy my own speculations in my little garden at Redriff to apply those excellent lessons of virtue which I learned among the Houyhnhnms to instruct the yahoos of my own family, as far as I shall find them docile animals to behold my figure often in a glass, and thus, if possible, habituate myself by time to tolerate the sight of a human creature to lament the brutality of Houyhnhnms in my own country, but always treat their persons with respect, for the sake of my noble master, his family, his friends, and the whole Houyhnhnm race, whom these of ours have the honor to resemble in all their lineaments, however their intellectuals came to degenerate.
10. All I have to do is get on a plane, make my assignment and my life will resemble this from now on.