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a small amount of something; or something resembling (looking like) something else- Embarrassed as she was, she tried to maintain some semblance of dignity.
- The substitute teacher had to battle to maintain even a semblance of order.
- Kindness, which had been the food of my life through so many years, had lately been so entirely denied me, that I welcomed with grateful joy the slightest semblance of it.Anne Bronte -- Agnes Grey
- His mouth wore its usual semblance of a smile.Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
- he hoped his claims would have a semblance of authenticity
- I feel my eyes grow moist and try to rearrange my ruined face into some semblance of toughness.Sara Gruen -- Water for Elephants
- At an indefinite height overhead something made the black sky blacker, which had the semblance of a vast architrave uniting the pillars horizontally.Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- WITHIN THL stifling women's unit, Crystal "the mayor" made an effort to maintain a faint semblance of prison protocol.Piper Kerman -- Orange Is the New Black
- I have your own letter that induced me to the semblance I put on; with the which I doubt not but to do myself much right or you much shame.William Shakespeare -- Twelfth Night
- Or at least a semblance thereof.Nicholas Sparks -- The Choice
- I might have loved again and desired again, and sought some semblance of mortal life which would have been rich and varied, though unnatural.Anne Rice -- Interview with the Vampire
- People under stress always fell back into habits and routines, as if hoping to maintain some semblance of order in their world.Nicholas Sparks -- The Guardian
- He looked at the cold bright carrion, that bungling semblance which had not even the power of a good wax-work to suggest its image.Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
- There was not even the semblance of a hello.Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief
- When he had regained some semblance of coherence, he turned to look back at the meadow, the lake, and night sky.William P. Young -- The Shack
- A little further onward was the spot where Lot's wife had stood forever under the semblance of a pillar of salt.Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Celestial Railroad
- He strained to maintain a semblance of control.Ted Dekker -- Black: The Birth of Evil
- He could barely stand to be on the same ship as his father, let alone sit across from him at dinner, but he had to maintain some semblance of civility.Kass Morgan -- The 100
- Our march had lost all semblance of discipline.Elie Wiesel -- Night
- 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.Robert Louis Stevenson -- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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