Sentence examples for the semblance from inspiring English sources
noun
Likeness, similarity; the quality of being similar.
Verisimilitude, the semblance of reality in dramatic or nondramatic fiction.
Painting (citrābhāsa, literally "the semblance of sculpture") ranks third.
This requires leaders representing differing philosophies to stand, so that we have the semblance of choice.
By the mid-1970s, Maritime Command had reorganized into the semblance of a naval staff.
Indeed, Laos has not even the semblance of an opposition and certainly no free press.
Absent even the semblance of a public transport system, the motorcycle-taxis were vital.
He also needs respectable politicians to give his new interim government the semblance of legitimacy.
The canopy of leaves, the semblance of an explosion, makes the tree one big benign firecracker.
Except that today we may literally have been thrown the semblance of a lifeline.
The men sleep in the part that still has the semblance of a roof.
On the right, there is the semblance of a tartan sampler.
