SEMBLANCE


Meaning of SEMBLANCE in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

some semblance of normality

We’ll soon get back to some semblance of normality .

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

maintain

Nobody has yet been discovered who maintains any semblance of normal health without sleeping.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

And so it went on: a series of intrinsically meaningless turns that gained a semblance of significance through weekly repetition.

How the giant machine swayed and staggered - until Juron gained a semblance of proper rhythm.

Indeed for most of the first half Iron struggled to find any semblance of the form they later displayed after the interval.

Old Chao puckered his face into a semblance of pain.

Our people are denied even the semblance of political power, electing careerist politicians who allegedly represent our interests.

The Celtics put it into overdrive in the third, effectively ending any semblance or thought of competition for the night.

The Primarch's dead limbs were momentarily restored, all be it clad in a semblance of translucent rotting tissue.

There will be just enough time for some semblance of the democratic process within the party to operate.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.