The phrase "as he resembled" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when making a comparison or drawing a similarity between someone and another person or thing.
Example: "The actor was cast in the role because he resembled the historical figure they were portraying."
Alternatives: "since he looked like" or "because he was similar to".
They call him "Baby Schumi," as he resembles his German countryman physically, and above all, as a winner.
The arrival of our son in 2008 added another layer of complexity to my adventure as a Latina in the suburbs, as he resembles me (brown/black hair and eyes and a medium-dark complexion), not my husband, who is white (of Irish and Scottish background).
And yet he has left us with nearly as many great footballing memories as the player he resembled most, George Best.
Or on the raffish butler hired for the same affair: "No amount of last-minute tailoring would ever get the cloth to hang in a natural way, and as a result he resembled a human cannoli".
At the start of his career, when he rode the 2007 Tour de France at the age of 21, Thomas was abortively nicknamed "the penguin", as David Millar thought he resembled one of the birds from the film Madagascar, with a cuddly exterior hiding the inner assassin.
(In this he resembles artists as diverse as Luis Buñuel and Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
If anything surprised me it was that Farage has as much public support as he does when he resembles an animated bullfrog and reduces everything to a sixqngle issue.
As it is, he resembles a hybrid of St. Nick and Sean Connery.
One of the most famous referees is Javier Castrilli of Argentina, known as the Sheriff because he resembles John Wayne or Clint Eastwood riding into some dusty Western town to take on the dirty job.
At times he seems a combination of Martin Luther King Jr., whom he paraphrases often, and Gandhi, whose countenance he resembles, as he speaks in soft, earnest tones while sporting little, round spectacles like the ones the Mahatma wore.
