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  • But it quickly became apparent that Hassan and I were better kite fighters than kite makers.   (source)
    apparent = clear or obvious
  • Apparently the world is not a wish-granting factory.   (source)
    apparently = obviously or clearly
  • His quiet voice was filled with pain, and the depth of his despair was apparent on the features of his avatar's face.   (source)
    apparent = clear or obvious
  • Apparently Mr. Malfoy had set out in a great hurry, for not only were his shoes half-polished, but his usually sleek hair was disheveled.   (source)
    apparently = it seemed
  • He returned a few minutes later and announced the file was apparently misplaced.   (source)
    apparently = obviously
  • Risa didn't think it was possible to like Alexis any less than she already did. Apparently she was wrong.   (source)
    apparently = clearly
  • But if he pitied himself in those last difficult hours ... it's not apparent from the photograph. He is smiling in the picture, and there is no mistaking the look in his eyes: Chris McCandless was at peace, serene as a monk gone to God.   (source)
    apparent = obvious
  • He had apparently been forgotten.   (source)
    apparently = obviously or clearly; or seemingly so (appearing clear or obvious--though not necessarily so)
  • By midday Jonas's absence would become apparent, and would be a cause for serious concern.   (source)
    apparent = obvious
  • The reason was apparently genetic:   (source)
    apparently = clearly
  • When it was apparent Mr. Hazelwurst wasn't leaving, August began to speak.   (source)
    apparent = clear
  • Apparently there was always at least one stray relative living at the Finneys' temporarily.   (source)
    apparently = obviously or clearly
  • Suddenly, for no apparent reason, the boy's horse began to slow.   (source)
    apparent = clear or obvious
  • When it was apparent that the shadow wasn't coming back he...   (source)
    apparent = clear (obvious)
  • A suspicious malady, no apparent Westing connection, somehow Sydelle Pulaski did not seem to fit in.   (source)
    apparent = obvious
  • There was no obvious flagship, no apparent nerve center.   (source)
  • I'd thought Laura had been slackening off on the God question, but apparently not.   (source)
    apparently = clearly
  • A ringing began in his ears—perhaps lurking there all along but apparent only when the weight of the blanket dulled his senses.   (source)
    apparent = noticeable
  • Apparently, she met some UVA guy at that hostessing job she had.   (source)
    apparently = it seems
  • One had a three-fingered claw that clasped and unclasped for no apparent reason.   (source)
    apparent = clear or obvious
  • Which didn't do much good, though, since apparently David didn't notice it.   (source)
    apparently = obviously or clearly
  • Apparently they'd left some things behind.   (source)
    apparently = obviously
  • Maybe she should have paid more attention to the conversation-apparently it had taken a turn for the interesting while Lacy was woolgathering.   (source)
  • Apparently Mayella's recital had given her confidence, but it was not her father's brash kind: there was something stealthy about hers, like a steady-eyed cat with a twitchy tail.   (source)
    apparently = clearly (easily seen)
  • One day, for no apparent reason, Mother broke all ties with Shirley.   (source)
    apparent = clear or obvious
  • Apparently, beets are Not Good Enough.   (source)
    apparently = obviously or clearly; or appearing clear or obvious though not necessarily so
  • The beach between the palm terrace and the water was a thin stick, endless apparently, for to Ralph's left the perspectives of palm and beach and water drew to a point at infinity;   (source)
    apparently = appearing so (though not really)
  • I'm not sure, Andy, but it certainly is apparent in literature.   (source)
    apparent = clear or obvious
  • Incredible as it seemed, he apparently intended going toe to toe with the troll.   (source)
    apparently = seemingly (appearing clear or obvious--though not necessarily so)
  • The teachers hear all the application reels and word gets around. Your audition tape was apparently quite good.   (source)
    apparently = obviously or clearly
  • Roscoe Campbell, owner and editor of the Telegrapher, encouraged Adam's father to go beyond the superficial aspects of stories, to find the meanings below the surfaces, to root out what might be hidden or not apparent to the casual reader.   (source)
    apparent = clear
  • They stopped, apparently surprised by the question.   (source)
    apparently = clearly
  • Apparently, he thought we were joking about the date.   (source)
    apparently = obviously or clearly; or appearing clear or obvious though not necessarily so
  • I hoped the disappointment wasn't too apparent in my voice.   (source)
    apparent = obvious
  • But we carefully, not to say studiously, avoided this very apparent connection.   (source)
    apparent = appearing obvious
  • Apparently they think we're boys, except maybe Rachel, and can't tell a one of us apart from the other.   (source)
    apparently = appearing as such but not necessarily so
  • She talked about the way spring made the world burst into life after months of apparent death.   (source)
    apparent = seeming (appearing as such)
  • His mother was apparently addicted to shopping, and there were boxes upon boxes, unopened, of laundry detergent, Tupperware, canned goods.   (source)
    apparently = clearly
  • There is no immediately apparent pattern.   (source)
    apparent = clear or obvious
  • The bullet had been accompanied by the sound of screeching tires, so apparently whoever had shot at us had taken off down the valley.   (source)
    apparently = obviously; or seemingly (appearing obvious--though not necessarily so)
  • Mari nods without much apparent interest.   (source)
    apparent = clear or obvious
  • murder without apparent motive   (source)
    apparent = obvious
  • The difference between one dreamer who was still energized by his lifelong passion while on his deathbed and another dreamer whose goal was so ill-fitting for his personality that he committed suicide should be apparent to you.   (source)
    apparent = obvious or clear
  • We can see that she was a pretty girl, even exceptionally so, but now it is apparent that life has been little that she expected, and disappointment has already begun to hang in her face.   (source)
    apparent = clear or obvious
  • Commercial airlines are tricky. I don't have a credit card. Apparently, paying in cash makes one a security risk.   (source)
    apparently = obviously or clearly
  • Apparently satisfied, he pressed a button and rolled down the window.   (source)
  • Apparently before he phoned me he'd just had a long, rather harrowing letter from your latest headmaster, to the effect that you were making absolutely no effort at all.   (source)
  • By the time we were ten, it became apparent, though, that Caroline's true gift was her voice.   (source)
    apparent = clear or obvious
  • Old Chao hesitated, apparently aware that he was displaying more self-satisfaction than was seemly.   (source)
    apparently = obviously
  • He put the knife back on the counter with the other things and she nodded, apparently satisfied.   (source)
    apparently = seemingly (appearing to be--though not necessarily so)
  • It became bitterly apparent that this separation was going to go on existing into the foreseeable future.   (source)
    apparent = obvious (clear)
  • He was relieved to find Dan Gunn standing in his office. Dan's face was more deeply shadowed with fatigue and a two-day growth of beard, his shirt was torn, and he looked dirty, but he apparently was unhurt.   (source)
    apparently = appearing clear or obvious (though not known for sure)
  • The University of Louisville was a real school and so was Harvard, where she'd apparently continued her studies.†   (source)
    apparently = obviously or clearly; or seemingly so (appearing clear or obvious--though not necessarily so)
  • It seemed to me that the thing for Daisy to do was to rush out of the house, child in arms — but apparently there were no such intentions in her head.   (source)
    apparently = clearly (or obviously)
  • in this area it is very important that Chance's attitude should be self-recognition but not self-pity -- a sort of deathbed dignity and honesty apparent in it.   (source)
    apparent = obvious
  • Red rockets shoot up to the sky. Apparently there's an attack coming.   (source)
    apparently = it appears that
  • Father Kleinsorge's apparently negligible but unhealed cuts   (source)
    apparently = seemingly (appearing to be, but perhaps not really being)
  • This child had taken and lost her treasured amethyst brooch and now sat there calmly reciting the details thereof without the least apparent compunction or repentance.   (source)
    apparent = appearance of
  • ... but Cass Mastern apparently had a systematic mind, and so he went back to the beginning,   (source)
    apparently = it seemed obvious
  • They did not know how to do anything, and as the days went by it became apparent that they could not learn.   (source)
    apparent = clear or obvious
  • This remedy worked, apparently.   (source)
    apparently = seemingly (appearing to be obvious--though not necessarily so)
  • "Ever hear of people being resuscitated after they have apparently drowned?"   (source)
    apparently = seemingly (something appears to have happened, but may not have)
  • If the maid went by and closed the door of the apparently empty room he would get up after a while and open it again.   (source)
    apparently = obviously; or seemingly (appearing clear or obvious--though not necessarily so)
  • He seemed in no hurry to go, and apparently was quite unconscious of his immediate danger.   (source)
    apparently = seemingly (appearing clear or obvious--though not necessarily so)
  • "Ye-e-es," he muttered, not very convinced apparently.   (source)
    apparently = obviously
  • Mrs. Watchett came in and walked, apparently without seeing me, towards the garden door.   (source)
    apparently = clearly; or seemingly (appearing clear--though not necessarily so)
  • Another, who was a boy in years, took his plight with great calmness and apparent good nature.   (source)
    apparent = obvious
  • An old, crooked shrine, which has been long abandoned; near it a well and large stones, which apparently are old tombstones, and an old garden seat.   (source)
    apparently = clearly
  • His calmness, however, was more apparent than real.   (source)
    apparent = professed (made to appear real even though it wasn't)
  • Bulstrode carried his candle to the bedside of Raffles, who was apparently in a painful dream.   (source)
    apparently = obviously
  • It was the manner in which all this, and much more, was said—it was the apparent heart that went with his request—which allowed me no room for hesitation;   (source)
    apparent = obvious; or appearing obvious though not necessarily so
  • In a moment the truth became apparent!   (source)
    apparent = clear or obvious
  • Sometimes he would come up unexpectedly on the opposite side of me, having apparently passed directly under the boat.   (source)
    apparently = clearly
  • Apparently that's how the government rewarded good work, by transferring you from one place to another.†   (source)
  • Unable to understand English, he had apparently forgotten the international meaning of stares as well.†   (source)
  • This is most apparent in general relativity: Its static model of the universe negates the dynamic nature of matter.†   (source)
  • Images of tanks surrounding the CNN building appeared from time to time, apparently highlighting the criticality of CNN to the nation.†   (source)
  • What elephants and princesses had failed to accomplish, the life at Idlehour had apparently achieved.†   (source)
  • Those signs apparently appeared, and I became the legal son of Bob, a man I'd known for barely a year.†   (source)
  • It had been sewn together to form a bag, apparently in a hurry or by someone unpracticed, judging from the uneven stitches.†   (source)
  • Apparently one of them, Eric, had boasted of buying the propane tanks he later used in his efforts to blow up the cafeteria, but no one had taken him seriously.†   (source)
  • But apparently that wasn't the plan.†   (source)
  • Apparently, it was possible to survive in such cold temperatures, and he now understood the need for the awkward padded jacket.†   (source)
  • The boy, no older than sixteen, darted his head back and forth, apparently looking for cops, customers, or both.†   (source)
  • Apparently the student got sick and was sent home early.†   (source)
  • The hellish beast was apparently staying away from me.†   (source)
  • An apparent robbery-murder in a popular downtown business was unprecedented.†   (source)
  • Eddie never said this-not to his wife, not to his mother, not to anyone-but he cursed his father for dying and for trapping him in the very life he'd been trying to escape; a life that, as he heard the old man laughing from the grave, apparently now was good enough for him.†   (source)
  • Apparently they're building sites, half of those budget deals, and you wouldn't know until you got there.†   (source)
  • The idiom apparently didn't translate.†   (source)
  • The doctor who delivered you was on the ball, plus apparently there was some slack in the cord, so he was able to loop it off as you came out.†   (source)
  • Volkheimer's technique, apparently, is this: he crouches beneath the buckled ceiling, panting, holding a piece of twisted rebar in one hand.†   (source)
  • Not everyone, apparently, had known about Olaf's plan.†   (source)
  • In fact, they followed a whole other set of mysterious rules where people apparently DID NOT GET INTO FISTFIGHTS.†   (source)
  • It was a rambling brick structure that had been added on to over the years without any apparent plan.†   (source)
  • Apparently I didn't have to wait until getting to the palace to worry about potential rebel attacks.†   (source)
  • She was seated on a hall bench with her back to an arched window, just outside the assessor's office, which was closed, gathering herself, apparently.†   (source)
  • Apparently having something that actually fits was not acceptable.†   (source)
  • They stood before a display, as tall as themselves, where jellyfish, ghostly and slow, rose and fell with no apparent pattern or reason.†   (source)
  • The wall, apparently, surrounded the entire development.†   (source)
  • Also Doctor Watson says about Sherlock HolmesHis mind ....was busy in endeavouring to frame some scheme into which all these strange and apparently disconnected episodes could befitted And that is what I am trying to do by writing this book.†   (source)
  • Apparently, she was overheard in homeroom as we said the Pledge each morning.†   (source)
  • Apparently he's bringing her back for his collection.†   (source)
  • He asked, on behalf of Rose and Pammy and Linda, for the wisdom to understand this apparently meaningless death.†   (source)
  • Then again, since I've apparently retained nothing mathematical since about the second grade, I guess I can't really blame my dad for being so mad.†   (source)
  • The apparent secret was "belief without miracles"; a faith that needed a miracle was not a faith at all.†   (source)
  • Her gaze is steady; apparently I haven't reacted.†   (source)
  • I was five-foot-eleven but I had twenty-five thousand cotton dollars in my name and if the beauty in that was not apparent then, by God, he wasn't smart enough to be in the family anyway.†   (source)
  • He had enjoyed their company early in his adolescence, but it had become apparent that he'd always be a step away.†   (source)
  • Six doesn't have the best track record for celibacy, and apparently some of the guys I've made out with don't have the best track record for secrecy.†   (source)
  • Apparently they'd been spotted elsewhere and had taken bites out of a woman who'd been walking in Century Woods the week before.†   (source)
  • By then his cider, which he had apparently expected to dole out according to his own governing whim, was disappearing.†   (source)
  • Thieving I can do just fine, but dancing is apparently out of my reach.†   (source)
  • These moods descended on her suddenly and for no apparent reason.†   (source)
  • Apparently my mother had called him and told him that if he didn't come home immediately, he might as well stay in Washington forever.†   (source)
  • Four doorways with four arrows each meant sixteen arrows to choose from, and there was no apparent pattern.†   (source)
  • Apparently it jumps like that to frighten off predators.†   (source)
  • The others around me stay a good distance away, apparently eager to avoid an awkward conversation.†   (source)
  • Did he believe he could conceal his crime behind an apparent kindness, behind this show of being the good shepherd?†   (source)
  • And so now, when there is a great crisis, when malfeasance is apparent, Alfred turns himself into ...†   (source)
  • Pedro couldn't have chosen a worse moment to speak to Tita, but seeing her on the stairs, apparently resting, he went over to try to convince her that she shouldn't marry John.†   (source)
  • Apparently it was up to her to provide the conversation.†   (source)
  • Apparently he said he thought the girl was George Harvey.†   (source)
  • She scanned Cinder's face, neck, arms again, as if her immunity were something visible, something that should have been apparent.†   (source)
  • He had read them all and quoted long passages from them for no apparent reason.†   (source)
  • Apparently, she wasn't.†   (source)
  • He is apparently chosen by the government, but the qualities he is required to display are not those of leadership but those of finely judged outrage.†   (source)
  • "It will take a few days for the effects to become apparent," he said.†   (source)
  • Because she was apparently never going to stop sounding like she just got here yesterday from Korea.†   (source)
  • Several weeks later, for no apparent reason, my father was released from prison.†   (source)
  • Was showing off, of course, and put the wrong thing with the wrong thing and now he has no eyebrows and a rather large mustache, apparently.†   (source)
  • Hannah was silent as well when they led her into the room she apparently shared with Gitl.†   (source)
  • She had taken it away after I was suspended; the night before, when she was in the shower, I'd tried to find it by calling the number but apparently she'd turned it off.†   (source)
  • Margot is sixteen— apparently they want to send girls her age away on their own.†   (source)
  • Their partnerships were known as "white-shoe" firms, in apparent reference to the white bucks favored at the country club or a cocktail party, and they were very particular in whom they hired.†   (source)
  • Apparently I'd been bringing home a healthy population of fleas.†   (source)
  • That's why my cousin Marcia used to find herself crying hysterically, with no warning or apparent cause.†   (source)
  • It's apparent that he doesn't like the Jameses.†   (source)
  • But I was aware too why the animals had emerged again, and of all the possible layers behind Tommy's apparently casual query.†   (source)
  • We had to circle to find a space at the Days Inn; the payroll convention was apparently a hot ticket.†   (source)
  • Apparently they stopped here to pick up horses, as we did.†   (source)
  • At times she gave off a kind of come-get-me energy, coy and flirtatious, but apparently it never bothered Mark Fossie.†   (source)
  • She couldn't believe he was back with her, apparently perfectly all right except for the scratch on his forehead, almost hidden by his dark hair.†   (source)
  • But his looks apparently got him into a lot of trouble.†   (source)
  • It was apparently routine treatment for people who had been unconscious for more than a day or two, but knowing that didn't make it any more bearable.†   (source)
  • The rebels went on with their card games, chatting for hours, and then for no apparent reason they shot a couple of rounds into the air.†   (source)
  • Its fire had apparently been transferred to the draperies at the window.†   (source)
  • Sometimes they ran along the railroad track laughing, too loud, apparently, to hear her because they never did turn around.†   (source)
  • The apparently foreign.†   (source)
  • With both parents on the premises, the buyer could see firsthand the lineage—although in our case, the father apparently was outside and out of pocket.†   (source)
  • The innkeeper had seen it too, apparently.†   (source)
  • The Minister's answer was to let out a burp, which I considered a very well-spoken reply because it was apparent he was about to throw up.†   (source)
  • They were apparently of no importance, but they let us know that the Germans had not forgotten us, and had no intention of doing so.†   (source)
  • Then one day the peculiarity of his name becomes apparent.†   (source)
  • Then suddenly, for no apparent reason-she might have gotten the accelerator and the brake pedal mixed up-she stood on the brake pedal with all her might.†   (source)
  • And I was already seeing myself as a character in a disaster movie, thinking of how I'd save my new bride during the calamity apparently to come.†   (source)
  • The apparently dead Tiffany shows up later, to the discomfort of her faithless lover.†   (source)
  • The Ayers family bought an upright piano for their living room and arranged for Del and Nathaniel to have lessons with a Mrs. Lockhart, and it became apparent, as Nathaniel worked through the John Thompson piano course books, that their son seemed to have a good ear and nimble fingers.†   (source)
  • We had not told him what we were doing while he was in surgery, under anesthesia, apparently unconscious.†   (source)
  • Her confidence in her superiority had apparently taken too severe a blow for her to deal with just now.†   (source)
  • Apparently, his house is still standing in Paris.†   (source)
  • Apparently, I was taking U.S. History again this year, which was the only history taught at Jackson, making the name redundant.†   (source)
  • Why anyone would even want a soundproof vault was a question that apparently did not occur to him.†   (source)
  • Apparently we had friends in high places.†   (source)
  • Apparently the subject was closed.†   (source)
  • The driver of the digging machine was a portly native man with a non-native wife, a woman who looked native to Nadia but had apparently arrived from a nearby country two) decades ag( and who quite possibly had retained a trace of her ancestral accent, but then again the natives had so many different accents that it was impossible for Nadia to say.†   (source)
  • It was apparent that many students were going for that reward.†   (source)
  • Apparently, Mr. Popo ignored all the signs and wandered into the training exercise figuring he'd carry on business as usual.†   (source)
  • It was equally apparent to Aristotle that the highest degree of reality is that which we perceive with our senses.†   (source)
  • Lurz had been working at Crownsville since 1964, when he was a student intern in his twenties, and he had a habit of collecting potentially historic documents: patient records, copies of old admissions reports that caught his attention—an infant admitted blind in one eye with facial deformities and no family, a child institutionalized without any apparent psychiatric disorder.†   (source)
  • Let me say the powerful instinct of a vampire to whom even the slightest change in a human's facial expression is as apparent as a gesture.†   (source)
  • He cut his glance toward Jace, who was walking a few paces ahead of them, apparently conversing with the cat.†   (source)
  • She knew all along, apparently 'something not right about that girl, something off, no family, no friends, came from nowhere.'†   (source)
  • Big Mike overheard this exchange and apparently liked the sound of it.†   (source)
  • For Padorin there was no apparent escape.†   (source)
  • But during our third class he apparently noticed something unusual about my eyes.†   (source)
  • But apparently Hiro has a deal with them.†   (source)
  • A little door was open at the back of the cage, and apparently Bobo was in the inner part where they get fed.†   (source)
  • He saw various women of indecipherable age, their skin dry and cracked, some apparently pregnant, all of them barefoot and dressed in faded rags.†   (source)
  • Apparently the many moving parts of Operation Redwing, so susceptible to change, were still in place.†   (source)
  • The experiment in getting along, it seemed to me, was apparently very much ongoing, and the results would have relevance well beyond Clarkston.†   (source)
  • Because the Carson brothers made such good showings, our performance apparently upset a few of the White people.†   (source)
  • The worst part is the therapist apparently believed him and made excuses to the parole board for him.†   (source)
  • My mother peeked—and found a letter professing his love to this Mexican woman who was apparently the mother of his children.†   (source)
  • Too soon doctors would discover and be amazed at the apparent difference in age between his face and his body.†   (source)
  • He said it for no apparent reason, and the angel of death hovered for a moment in the cool shadows of the office and flew out again through the window, leaving a trail of feathers fluttering in his wake, but the boy did not see them.†   (source)
  • Apparently, this happens often, but the second interpreter jumps in to straighten things out.†   (source)
  • Apparently a body can exist on IM alone.†   (source)
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