OSTENSIBLE in a Sentence
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12 example sentences for OSTENSIBLE, such as:
1. Troops were sent in, ostensibly to protect the civilian population.
2. Proceedings can't be prevented from moving forward unless there are some at least ostensible reasons given.
3. Their ostensible goal was to clean up government corruption, but their real aim was to unseat the government.
4. I own that your question embarrasses me, Valentine, for I cannot say that the count has rendered me any ostensible service.
5. But, while he was making this ostensible sacrifice to general considerations, Magua never lost sight of his individual motives.
2. Proceedings can't be prevented from moving forward unless there are some at least ostensible reasons given.
3. Their ostensible goal was to clean up government corruption, but their real aim was to unseat the government.
4. I own that your question embarrasses me, Valentine, for I cannot say that the count has rendered me any ostensible service.
5. But, while he was making this ostensible sacrifice to general considerations, Magua never lost sight of his individual motives.
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Meanings and Examples of OSTENSIBLE
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ostensible
a. put forth or held out as real, actual, or intended; proper or intended to be shown
Classic Sentence:
1 The ostensible reason why Ahab did not go on board of the whaler we had spoken was this: the wind and sea betokened storms.
2 But, while he was making this ostensible sacrifice to general considerations, Magua never lost sight of his individual motives.
3 I own that your question embarrasses me, Valentine, for I cannot say that the count has rendered me any ostensible service.
4 Proceedings can't be prevented from moving forward unless there are some at least ostensible reasons given.
5 Each turned ostensibly to say--O whatever came handy--to his neighbour.
6 Then the novel, like gossip, becomes at last vicious, and, like gossip, all the more vicious because it is always ostensibly on the side of the angels.
7 He had often come up here without stating his purpose to his mother; but this was the first time that he had been ostensibly frank as to his purpose while really concealing it.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: 4 An Hour of Bliss and Many Hours of Sadness
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: 4 An Hour of Bliss and Many Hours of Sadness
8 Then with a red head of hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a beggar.
Example Sentence:
1 Although the ostensible purpose of this expedition is to discover new lands, we are really interested in finding new markets for our products.
2 Their ostensible goal was to clean up government corruption, but their real aim was to unseat the government.
3 The attack was ostensibly motivated by Pyongyang's fury over "The Interview."
4 Troops were sent in, ostensibly to protect the civilian population.