OSTENSIBLY in a Sentence
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12 example sentences for OSTENSIBLY, 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 OSTENSIBLY
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ostensibly
ad. from appearances alone
Classic Sentence:
1 Each turned ostensibly to say--O whatever came handy--to his neighbour.
2 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.
3 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
4 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.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
Context Highlight In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
5 The ostensible reason why Ahab did not go on board of the whaler we had spoken was this: the wind and sea betokened storms.
6 But, while he was making this ostensible sacrifice to general considerations, Magua never lost sight of his individual motives.
7 I own that your question embarrasses me, Valentine, for I cannot say that the count has rendered me any ostensible service.
8 Proceedings can't be prevented from moving forward unless there are some at least ostensible reasons given.
Example Sentence:
1 The attack was ostensibly motivated by Pyongyang's fury over "The Interview."
2 Troops were sent in, ostensibly to protect the civilian population.
3 Although the ostensible purpose of this expedition is to discover new lands, we are really interested in finding new markets for our products.
4 Their ostensible goal was to clean up government corruption, but their real aim was to unseat the government.