Sentence examples for seemed proper from inspiring English sources

This seemed proper, even expected.

It seemed proper and right.

It seemed proper to eliminate certain words in the lyrics which, in racial terms, had proven offensive".

Anna had become entranced by the places at the dark ends of the streets: the establishments that seemed proper on the exterior but contained hidden rooms filled with glittering bottles of moonshine.

We kept on saying Re-GEE-na because it seemed proper, but soon learned that we were mistaken.

"On this account, it seemed proper to the Egyptians to remove it before it became greatly enlarged," Aëtius wrote, "especially at that time when the girls were about to be married": The surgery is performed in this way: Have the girl sit on a chair while a muscled young man standing behind her places his arms below the girl's thighs.

Graeber himself certainly seems to be having more fun than seems proper for a respected professor.

The former NAB chief executive Cameron Clyne told the AFR that "NAB ruling out involvement with the Adani Carmichael coal mega-mine seems proper" and "prudent" for shareholders.

It seems proper, within the vertebrate group, to consider elimination schemes as variations of mechanisms common to all higher animals but which enable animals to inhabit widely diversified environments.

But does it not seem proper that we who live in what was once the capital of the colonial province of New Netherland should feel a certain affinity for the players representing the old country?

Here it seems proper to resuscitate both Andy Warhol's famous observation that "being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art," and to paraphrase an aphorism often attributed to the actual Picasso: mediocre artists borrow, great artists steal.