Collocations for resemble - verb

closely, greatly, strongly, very much
He very much resembles a friend of mine.

in no way, not remotely
He does not resemble his brother in any way.
I have never seen anything remotely resembling the horrors of that day.

barely
faintly, rather, somewhat, superficially, vaguely
in some respects, in some ways
oddly, uncannily
physically
increasingly

be designed to
The house was designed to resemble a church.

tend to

in
The meat resembles chicken in texture.

anything resembling sth
Neither achieved anything resembling their former success.

something resembling sth
a fight for something resembling justice

Resemble is used with these nouns as the object:
father, mother