Sentence examples for seeming to put from inspiring English sources

"The festival stands with its invitation," he added, seeming to put the ball in Mr. Rushdie's court.

Nina, who lives with Mr. Pop in Miami, held the couple's Maltese, LUCKY, never seeming to put it down, as the gentlemen in the room looked on wistfully.

Mr. Obama declined to meet with the Dalai Lama in his first year as president, in October 2009, drawing international criticism as seeming to put economic interests with China ahead of human rights.

MOSCOW — Kanye West serenaded the grandson of Kazakhstan's longtime president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, at a wedding reception in Almaty on Saturday, seeming to put aside concerns about human rights abuses during the leader's 23-year autocratic rule.

But the game is probably best defined by this: Víctor Ruiz scored for Villarreal, momentarily seeming to put them 3-2 up, only for it to be (rightly) disallowed.

The reason the loser may not sue -- and both sides know it -- is a strong political incentive to avoid seeming to put personal ambition above a national need for closure.

That seems, to put it kindly, ambitious.

That seems, to put it mildly, improbable.

This seems to put her off.

It seems, to put it mildly, unlikely.

He didn't seem to put much effort into studying.