Sentence examples for might seem arbitrary from inspiring English sources

He insisted that these typical profiles, while they might seem arbitrary, had emerged in practice.

It might seem arbitrary, and it many ways it is--but the Greenwich meridian is just as arbitrary!

Focused in the operating room, the position of the clock's hands might seem arbitrary, but never meaningless.

This might seem arbitrary, but is actually just a strange as counting in base ten simply because we have ten digits.

These digits might seem arbitrary and innocuous, but in fact they represent a perfect number, a narcissistic number and a Mersenne prime.

In the hands of a lesser crime writer, the zigzagging cross-country path that "The Informant" takes might seem arbitrary and forced.

To a dog, the ten- and five-minute limits might seem arbitrary, and a little harsh: even in dog years, five minutes of barking is thirty-five minutes, which falls just short of the standard therapeutic hour.

For example, the threshold conception allows for the possibility of discontinuities in degrees of moral status that might seem arbitrary.