Example sentences for: ostensibly

How can you use “ostensibly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Watts, R-Okla., who ostensibly represents the party's conservative wing, followed Livingston on the show.

  • De Gaulle returned from the wilderness in 1958, ostensibly to keep Algeria French.

  • To the extent that the ostensibly objectionable uses are commercial, the problem is easily remedied with the Creative Commons Noncommercial License, which prohibits commercial reuse of a work without the copyright holder's consent.

  • Her daughter and Tony's sister, a sleazy ex-hippie named Pavarti, nee Janice, has shown up from Seattle, ostensibly to take care of her mother but more likely to scam off her brother.

  • Ostensibly Bob Merrill's most general lyric, it is, in fact, the most specific of all.


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