Sentence examples for been seeming from inspiring English sources

The phrase "been seeming" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is the present perfect form of the verb "to seem," indicating a continuous or ongoing state of seeming. Example: She had been seeming tired all week, but when I asked her about it, she said she was just stressed about work. In this sentence, "been seeming" indicates that the person's tiredness has been a continuous state for the past week. It also implies that the tiredness may have ended at some point, as indicated by the past tense verb "had."

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been seeming

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To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as.

  • He seems to be ill.

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Lately, the "Portlandia" characters had "been seeming more akin to who I really am," she added.

That sudden flush of morning light is autumn's little dividend, and just at a time of year when it's been seeming harder and harder to get up.

American sponsors of the Summer Games — like Coca-Cola, General Electric, McDonald's, Johnson & Johnson and Visa — have been seeming to distance themselves from the host government, playing up the message that the Olympics are about athletic achievement, period.

I've made it no secret to friends, families and readers that I have veered away from a wig or multiple ones, because to me (and I do have a noticeable hypersensitivity to certain smells, foods or looks) a wig has been seeming like a raccoon head, like an animal head on a mannequin.

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It's seeming more and more likely.

Except they're seeming to enjoy it".

The operative word here is "seems".

"He's seemed to calm back down".

Nothing is what is seems.

That's "seem," rather than "be," because seeming is art's job and its measure.

What peace there is seems threadbare.

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