Sample Sentences forostensibly (auto-selected)
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His ostensible purpose was charity, his real goal popularity.ostensible = claimed
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Whitney had stayed home, ostensibly to get dinner ready. (source)ostensibly = appearing as such, but really for another reason
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When, ostensibly, to do so should matter to them least of all?† (source)
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She turned her back, ostensibly to remove her outer coat and drop it on a nearby bench.† (source)
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Groups of young whites who ostensibly maintained order among the slaves.† (source)
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She let a car pass and took a look in both directions, ostensibly to check for more traffic.† (source)
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Loren Johnson, Billies father, ostensibly worked as a truck driver, "but he never held any job for long," she says.† (source)
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My ostensible errand on this occasion was to get measured for a pair of shoes; so I discharged that business first, and when it was done, I stepped across the clean and quiet little street from the shoemaker's to the post-office: it was kept by an old dame, who wore horn spectacles on her nose, and black mittens on her hands.† (source)
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I'd programmed mine to look, sound, and behave like Max Headroom, the (ostensibly) computer-generated star of a late—'80s talk show, a groundbreaking cyberpunk TV series, and a slew of Coke commercials.† (source)
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The group gathered at around 6:00 p.m., and by the time dessert was served at 8:30 not a word had been said about the ostensible reason for the dinner.† (source)
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This "child chemical endangerment statute" was ostensibly passed to protect children living in households where there were meth labs or drug-trafficking operations.† (source)
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There are occasions, Alvah, when the issues at stake are not the ostensible facts at all.† (source)
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But even when the house was ostensibly peaceful, our lives were so charged that I was constantly on guard.† (source)
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The ostensible reason why Ahab did not go on board of the whaler we had spoken was this: the wind and sea betokened storms.† (source)
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The walk to the rendezvous point was an interminable one, and as they walked Saeed and Nadia did not hold hands, for that was forbidden in public between genders, even for an ostensibly married couple, but from time to time their knuckles would brush at their sides, and this sporadic physical contact was important to them.† (source)
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I own that your question embarrasses me, Valentine, for I cannot say that the count has rendered me any ostensible service.† (source)
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