Example sentences for: appearances

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

  • But appearances were wrong.

  • The heroes of his early stories, from the 1940s and '50s, tend to be poor, inarticulate shopkeepers and workers (tailors, grocers, shoemakers, census-takers--Malamud almost always identified his characters by profession, in a bow to the proletarianism of the '30s), New York Jews mostly, whose rough outer appearances suddenly fall away to reveal inner souls of the purest lyrical passion.

  • It was worse, they say, when she did make appearances.

  • The NYT gives an excellent feel for the difficulties such questions might pose, ticking off details challenging various previous Clinton statements, garnered from the grand jury appearances of Betty Currie, Vernon Jordan and Secret Service personnel.

  • Most critics take the opportunity to sum up Capote's career: They recall with regret that Capote spent more time schmoozing than writing, and deem his work less memorable than his social appearances, particularly at his fabled 1966 "Black and White Ball" and on the Tonight Show . Critics also chide Plimpton for rehashing, rather than investigating, old accusations, such as Capote's alleged lying and drinking problems.


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