Use of the word semblance in a sentence example

semblance

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She put on a semblance of confidence. [noun]

A particular need is to begin restoring a semblance of civil society among the refugees. [noun]

We really need to maintain a semblance of normality here. [noun]

And there can only be a semblance of ethics in which murder in the shape of war and the execution of criminals is allowed, but no true ethics. [noun]

There may be a semblance of mathematics admitting that two is equal to three, but there can be no real science of mathematics. [noun]

Republicanism stands for vested rights, for imperialism, for graft, for the annihilation of every semblance of liberty. [noun]

A scene of indescribable confusion followed, in which Gianbattista alone seemed to maintain some semblance of coolness. [noun]

His mouth wore its usual semblance of a smile. [noun]

"You have asked the name," he said, "of a mute fountain, which hath the semblance, but not the reality, of a living thing." [noun]

The profound and treacherous night with its silence and semblance of peace settled upon the camp. [noun]

The convict is no longer, so to speak, in the semblance of the living. [noun]

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