SUPERFICIALLY in a Sentence
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43 example sentences for SUPERFICIALLY, such as:
1. A superficial injury is not serious.
2. This, however, was mere superficiality.
3. Starfish exhibit a superficially radial symmetry.
4. Even a superficial inspection revealed serious flaws.
5. The area bears a superficial similarity to south London.
2. This, however, was mere superficiality.
3. Starfish exhibit a superficially radial symmetry.
4. Even a superficial inspection revealed serious flaws.
5. The area bears a superficial similarity to south London.
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Meanings and Examples of SUPERFICIALLY
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superficially
ad. in a superficial manner
Classic Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
1 Persons but superficially acquainted with them would have taken for provincial that which was only antique.
2 And now that we are acquainted, superficially at least, with the masters and the valets, let us pass on to the dwellings occupied by each of them.
3 Connie liked her, she was so perfectly simple and frank, as far as she intended to be frank, and superficially kind.
4 This, however, was mere superficiality.
5 I found that while among them there was a large element of substantial, worthy citizens, there was also a superficiality about the life of a large class that greatly alarmed me.
6 She did not feel well physically but, forced by Melanie, she went to the store every day and tried to keep up a superficial interest in the mills.
7 Her relation with her aunt was as superficial as that of chance lodgers who pass on the stairs.
8 Mrs. Fisher's unconventionality was, after all, a merely superficial divergence from an inherited social creed, while the manners of the Gormer circle represented their first attempt to formulate such a creed for themselves.
9 But his dapper self-confidence seemed impenetrable to such hints, and she had a sense of something hard and self-contained behind the superficial warmth of his manner.
10 These were her superficial considerations; but under them lurked the secret dread that the obligation might not always remain intolerable.
11 It was the dominant animal failing to remember in the supreme moments the forceful causes of various superficial qualities.
12 One of the prisoners was nursing a superficial wound in the foot.
13 However, we will remark by the way, everything was not ridiculous and superficial in that curious epoch to which we are alluding, and which may be designated as the anarchy of baptismal names.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES
14 In his eyes, of course, the ecclesiastical authority was the chief of all; he was religious, superficial and correct on this point as on all others.
15 His defects and his vices, for he had some, were all superficial; in short, his physiognomy was of the kind which succeeds with an observer.
Example Sentence:
1 In light of the above, it is an object of the present invention to provide a device and a method which can superficially incise prepared meat products .
2 Starfish exhibit a superficially radial symmetry.
3 Although superficially similar to the Japanese nuclear reactor accident in March that started with flooding, the situation at the Fort Calhoun plant appears far more secure.
4 The documentary's treatment/analysis of the issues was very superficial.
5 I thought that article was written at a very superficial level.
6 This simple physical concept of addictive disease and recovery has an obvious superficial attraction but may be far from the full picture.
7 Even a superficial inspection revealed serious flaws.
8 A superficial injury is not serious.
9 The area bears a superficial similarity to south London.
10 We give higher ratings to job applicants who are like us in superficial and irrelevant ways: as went to same school or share same religion.