Example sentences for: ostensibly

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

  • The CDA, though ostensibly intended to protect children, clearly has a spillover effect on adults.

  • In embryonic development, totipotent cells (ostensibly organisms) divide into pluripotent cells (ostensibly nonorganisms), which in turn divide into cells that are "committed" to become specific tissues.

  • Where a best-selling product, in an ostensibly Catholic country, is Judas beer.

  • Croatia is ostensibly a democracy, but it has functioned under Tudjman like a semi-fascist dictatorship.

  • Arlen Specter's remark yesterday on CNN that with the latest flap, the White House "may have crossed the line of obstruction of justice" is quoted by USAT and the WP . The Post points out that such tapes were ostensibly covered by congressional committee subpoenas going back to last January, while the WSJ adds that Senate investigators had previously been told that no such tapes existed.


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