Sentence examples for seemed first from inspiring English sources

We went down there and bounced a tennis ball on it, and everything seemed first class".

It made for a powerful show, which seemed first like a familiar formula, but then departed delicately from the past.

Ouedraogo, meanwhile, continued the sad decline of his recent work, with a single-take tale of adultery and retribution that seemed first clumsy, and finally ludicrous.

89ers have camped out on the streets of cities from New York to Madrid, to demand back a future that the post-Wall world seemed first to promise, and then bankers and politicians to have stolen from them.

Indeed, some analysts said today, Mr. Chirac has drawn unparalleled benefit from a seesawing electoral process that seemed first to be leading to national aberration in the first-round presidential vote on April 21, only to move back to the restoration of its political norms.

Liverpool warmed up for Sunday's Worthington Cup final by completing the stormiest of passages into the Uefa Cup quarter-finals, hanging on to beat Roma in a concluding quarter-hour that threatened to turn ugly after the Spanish referee seemed first to award the Italians a penalty lifeline for handball, then to think better of it a few moments later.

Everything I wrote seemed second-hand, boring and impossibly crude.

They were a tight, loud unit, and their raw power pop seemed second nature to them.

Her people skills seemed first-rate.

My issues and my rights seemed second priority.

Special cases of (1.1) seem first to have been investigated by Lasalle [2] and Bihari [3].