It seemed as if a heavy body was thrown against the table with a force that pushed against his chest.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

The garden was quiet. The purple flowers on Giovanni's favorite plant seemed to glow in the evening's fading light.

VOA: special.2011.01.29

He used strong language and seemed to say that the United States would fight, if necessary,to defend its claim.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

So when I had a handful of these cases, it seemed to me then there was likely something worth investigating.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

Officials there seemed to think that education was only for children whose parents had enough money to pay for private schools.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

But the rewrites also removed some parts from the early books that might have seemed racially offensive to later generations.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

He seemed to be living the story about the writer who had sold his writing skill in order to make money.

VOA: special.2011.06.26

Her future seemed limitless. Then,in nineteen seventy-seven, Miss Jordan suddenly announced she was retiring from Congress and returning to Texas.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

For about a month, the proposed bill seemed to have the support of the administration of President Zachary Taylor.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

Yet it seemed to those seeking to solve the longitude problem that the only solution was in the moon and stars.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

At the time President Kennedy first spoke about landing humans on the moon, the Soviet space program seemed far ahead.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

Until Texas became a state, almost all national leaders seemed to accept the idea that Congress did have this power.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

The streets and walks and grass and buildings of the university seemed to me a Hollywood version of a college.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

The bill seemed to curl up as if it had been rolled and stuck into the end of a gun barrel.

VOA: special.2009.11.14