How to Use resemblance in a Sentence
resemblance
noun- He doesn't look exactly like his father, but there is some resemblance.
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The first two are me, the third is Bray and the fourth is Tristan… see the resemblance??
—Country Living Staff, Country Living, 29 Mar. 2023
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The resemblance — from the squint to the lopsided smile — is striking.
—Alex Apatoff, Peoplemag, 21 Feb. 2023
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The girl, Cruz said, bore a striking resemblance to her.
—Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2023
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The theory was based on nothing more than a slight resemblance between Brody and the man in the video.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2023
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The sloth bear’s name comes from the resemblance to the 3-toed sloth and their ability to hang upside down from tree limbs.
—Zachary Smith, cleveland, 25 Aug. 2023
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This 1-year-old boy brings to mind a very, very small version of a black panther, but that is where the resemblance ends.
—The Republic, The Arizona Republic, 28 July 2023
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But there are times when Wesley’s take on Kirk has no resemblance beyond the name to the guy William Shatner played.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2023
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The resemblance extends to the dandelion-fluff hairstyle that Ross had then and Carl has now.
—Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2023
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The contents of the novel, meanwhile, bear little resemblance to the movie in theatres now.
—Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2024
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In the second shot, Grace bears a striking resemblance to her mother.
—Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 17 Aug. 2023
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That effect may owe something to the bride’s resemblance to Jodie Comer.
—Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2023
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In the sweet photo, Keen has a striking resemblance to his dad, both sporting long curly hair and smiling for the camera.
—Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 19 June 2024
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The teenager bears a striking resemblance to her late mother and at times, has even worn her clothing.
—Alex Gurley, Peoplemag, 12 May 2023
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Weirdly, there’s a stylistic resemblance in several to the tintypes to the painting of Douanier Rousseau.
—Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 9 May 2023
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The instrumentation is varies across both songs, and the melody and lyrics of both the songs bear no resemblance to each other, Sheeran’s lawyers say.
—Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 24 Apr. 2023
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Just down the street is Renaissance, a vintage clothing store that bears no resemblance to the smelly venues where you have been known to treasure hunt.
—Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 28 Sep. 2023
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There are some obvious resemblances between the Devil Dogs and the Goons.
—Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 21 June 2024
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In fairness to the star, the packaging, from brand Grown Alchemist, bears a striking resemblance to a toothpaste tube.
—Jackie Fields, Peoplemag, 18 Dec. 2023
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And that would be, again, some resemblance for justice for the Holloway family.
—Abc News, ABC News, 15 June 2023
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The side-by-side pits were created by volcanic eruptions tens of thousands of years ago and bear resemblance to craters seen in Hawaii.
—Kae Lani Palmisano, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
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The results show that the resemblance between art and sports is often uncanny.
—Callum Sutherland, CNN, 8 Feb. 2024
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This particular genus is small and slow, and bears a striking resemblance to plant root hairs.
—Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2023
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In that case, the Niger crisis might bear some passing resemblance to Prigozhin’s own abortive uprising last month.
—Joel Gehrke, Washington Examiner, 2 Aug. 2023
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The at-home cold laser with LED wand bears a striking resemblance to a Scandinavian pepper mill and costs around $2,700.
—Mattie Kahn, Vogue, 30 Aug. 2023
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If anything, the fossilized tissue bore a striking resemblance to the scaly skin of a crocodile.
—Kate Golembiewski, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2024
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The 27-year-old was familiar with Hahn’s effusive screen presence, and a resemblance to her helped Pidgeon land the part.
—Matt Jacobs, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 June 2023
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The restaurant doesn’t bear much resemblance to what’s seen in its 1988 namesake starring Julia Roberts.
—Audra Heinrichs, Vogue, 6 Dec. 2023
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Will picks up a trophy, looking back and forth between the figure and Angela, as if searching for a resemblance.
—Clare Sestanovich, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
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At first glance, the fine-dining spin on pad thai served at Potong bears little resemblance to the traditional street food dish.
—Isabelle Kliger, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 July 2024
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